On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:41:42PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > So, I'm in dselect, and it says that icewm-common recommends icepref. > Unfortunately, it's not just a recommendation, because it won't resolve the > conflict without it selected for install.
You can tell dselect not to bother with the recommeded packages, by pressing 'D' and then 'Q' in the dependency resolution screen. 'D' sets the package selections back to your direct selections. 'Q' commits the current selections without further depends checking. 'X' exits, disregarding any changes in selections. If you are confused at any place in dselect, you can always keep hitting 'X' until you are back at the main menu, and no changes will have been made effectively. 'Enter' will do what 'Q' does, but first it checks the dependencies and if there are any unresolved ones found, you are prompted with a new dependency resolution screen. This is also explained more clearly in the help screen that always pops up before the dependency resolution screen and that you can get back to at any moment by pressing the '?' and 'i' keys. > Is this a dselect bug? In the sense that you are asking, no. You just need to press 'Q', not 'Enter'. It is a feature. In another sense, it is clumsy at least that this has to be done every time when there is an unresolved recommends: in the active package selections. There are some patches for this, but I don't believe they are in a dselect near you just yet (maybe soon in unstable). Cheers, Joost