Re: dselect not respecting holds ?

2004-11-08 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 10:05:44PM -0800, James Kirk wrote: The dselect's online help states, when describing key usage, the H or = will hold a package in its present state, and when describing the meaning of the symbols used in the 4 state columns that = denotes the package is on hold, and

Re: dselect not respecting holds ?

2004-11-08 Thread James Kirk
--- Maurits van Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 10:05:44PM -0800, James Kirk wrote: The dselect's online help states, when describing key usage, the H or = will hold a package in its present state, and when describing the meaning of the symbols used in the 4

Re: dselect not respecting holds ?

2004-11-08 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 01:23:54PM -0800, James Kirk wrote: The correct way to keep a package in its current uninstalled form is *not* to put in on hold. Can you point to the documentation that says this is the correct way to keep a package in its current state? I'll express myself

Re: dselect not respecting holds ?

2004-11-07 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 11:47:24AM -0800, James Kirk wrote: Does anyone else (who still uses dselect) find that dselect does not respect holds ? A couple of packages (tetex-bin, gramofile) I've installed have recommends/suggests (texi2html, mctools-lite, cddb) that don't interest me. I

Re: dselect not respecting holds ?

2004-11-07 Thread James Kirk
--- Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 11:47:24AM -0800, James Kirk wrote: Does anyone else (who still uses dselect) find that dselect does not respect holds ? A couple of packages (tetex-bin, gramofile) I've installed have recommends/suggests (texi2html,

dselect not respecting holds ?

2004-11-06 Thread James Kirk
Does anyone else (who still uses dselect) find that dselect does not respect holds ? A couple of packages (tetex-bin, gramofile) I've installed have recommends/suggests (texi2html, mctools-lite, cddb) that don't interest me. I marked them hold in the dependecies conflict resolution window that

Re: dselect not respecting holds ?

2004-11-06 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 11:47:24AM -0800, James Kirk wrote: Does anyone else (who still uses dselect) find that dselect does not respect holds ? A couple of packages (tetex-bin, gramofile) I've installed have recommends/suggests (texi2html, mctools-lite, cddb) that don't interest me. I