Re: dselect (or apt) wish list
On 11 Nov 1998q, Jiri Baum wrote:
> Hello Zack Brown <zbrown@lynx.neu.edu>,
>
> > 3) At the end of the "install" phase, dselect asks if it should delete
> > installed packages. I suggest that either the default be changed to 'no'
> ...
>
> Well, once you've installed them, you usually don't need them any more.
>
Can you clarify this please? I thought this choice was the equivalent of
dpkg --remove. I've never dared use it again since it once started removing all
kinds of things I had installed.
Anthony
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