Re: What does this mean with dselect

[Havoc Pennington]

On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Patrick Colbeck wrote:
> 
> Checking system integrity...ok
> The following packages have been kept back
>   gobjc smail g++ egcc doc-linux-html wxhelp doc-linux-text 
>   

I believe it means that there are newer versions of these packages, but
for whatever reason Apt is not going to upgrade them. It could be that you
asked not to upgrade them, or that there's some dependency conflict which
prevents upgrading. 

Havoc

What does this mean with dselect

[Patrick Colbeck]

Reply-To: 
Hi

Can anyone tell me what messages like this mean when I use dselect with the
apt access method.

Checking system integrity...ok
The following packages have been kept back
  gobjc smail g++ egcc doc-linux-html wxhelp doc-linux-text 
  
Thanks

Pat