@glitch.snoozer.net Subject: Re: dselect problem with potato [RESOLVED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mail-Followup-To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>, \ References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 03:52:45PM -0600
The problem turned out, rather unexpectedly, to be that xscreensaver recommends the virtual package "perl". Since both perl-5.004 and perl-5.005 conflict with "perl" (providing "perl5" instead), dselect silently selected them for removal... which chained down to everything which had a direct or indirect dependency upon either. Ouch!!! Now that I've removed xscreensaver, everything's back to normal.
