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Re: Dselect/dpkg feature request



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On 20 Feb 1997, Guy Maor wrote:

> David Engel <david@sw.ods.com> writes:
> 
> > It handles the install aspect of things just fine, but it doesn't
> > handle the uninstall aspect near as nicely.
> 
> You can solve this problem nicely with the --get-selections and
> --set-selections options of dpkg.  Do something like this:
> 
> dpkg --get-selections > sel
> dselect # install the packages you want to play with
> dpkg --set-selections < sel
> dpkg --remove --pending
> 

Can I add that unselected packages must be set on purge (_) or removed 
(-) before, and not on hold (=) as I (and may be other) used to do?



  
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