On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 02:51:40PM -0500, Michael Marziani wrote: > You didn't really answer my question at all. I know I can 'Q', and 'X' > to get out of the dependency screen, I am wondering why dselect cares so > much about a 'recommend' that it traps me in a dependency screen loop > just because I don't want to take its 'recommendation'. > > So does recommend = require or what? I am just a tad confused, AFTER > reading all the docs I could find.
It's a long-standing bug in dselect, and has been fixed in CVS. The fix didn't make it in time for woody, but will be in dpkg 1.10 in woody+1. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]