Dear all sorry for being off thread.
Thanks for your help. The hint by Andrei solved my problem. In /etc/apt/preferences, I marked the packages as Prio *-1*: Package: nano Pin: release testing Pin-Priority: -1 Package: aptitude Pin: release testing Pin-Priority: -1 Package: tasksel Pin: release testing Pin-Priority: -1 Package: tasksel-data Pin: release testing Pin-Priority: -1 and all the annoyances are gone. The problem with "hold" is that the front-ends overrule the package state for important packages, obviously. Using dselect's "=" or aptitude <package> hold did not solve my problem. Regarding your question, Robert, why so many people still use dselect and apt-get: ... because they simply prefer to. When I started using Debian back in 1999, I became acquainted with dselect -- as I have been using vim in xterm, and fvwm since 1993. For me, this is one of the great advantages of Debian to give the user the freedom to use what they prefer. All the best for 2010! wbr, Lukas -- Lukas Ruf <http://www.lpr.ch> | Ad Personam Consecom <http://www.consecom.com> | Ad Laborem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
