On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Andy Mortimer wrote: > On Jun 3, Fredrik Ax wrote > > On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > > > > > Dselect in that respect works fine for me. I am however upset with dselect > > > when using cdrom/mounted access methods. In those cases dselect does want > > > to see all of the packages mentioned in Packages file present. Even those > > > that you've chosen not to install. It also ignored symlinks across > > > filesystems. > > > > I agree with you that it is a bit irretating that deselect scans for ALL > > pakages ... I can see that it's done for consistency reasons, BUT it would > > be great if there was a switch to turn this off. > > I'm afraid you've got slightly the wrong end of the stick. ;) Using the > default methods, dselect scans through all *files* under the tree you > point it at, and for each one checks to see if it needs installing. There
No, what I have experienced is dselect trying to find all files mentioned in Packages and stop at the point where the package is missing. I'll try it again with when I have time and report if it is really happens. > -- > Andy Mortimer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.poboxes.com/andy.mortimer > PGP public key available on key servers > -- > I sing of you in my demented songs. > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > = === ===== |______ Alexander Stavitsky mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
