Did you consider using aptitude as your main package manager?? It will solve these problems easily. I just hold packages that I need to be hold and aptitude works great.
I dont understand why so many people today use pure apt-get for everyday package management. Robert. Dne Út 29. prosince 2009 23:21:51 Lukas Ruf napsal(a): > Dear all > > Some packges, for example nano, tasksel, aptitude or > texlive-pstricks-doc, I do not want to have installed. > > However, when I set them on hold by > > echo nano hold | dpkg --set-selections > echo tasksel hold | dpkg --set-selections > echo aptitude hold | dpkg --set-selections > echo texlive-pstricks-doc hold | dpkg --set-selections > > the hold-settings are ignored by dselect or by apt-get. > > Is there anywhere a setting that I can make dselect and apt-get obey > to my hold-settings permanently? > > Thanks > > wbr, > Lukas > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org