[plug] tracing dselect activity

[Lathiat]

i swear to you its buggy
like i set ppp to install and it removed it
it removed vim without me saying so
and all sorts of stuff


At 04:01 PM 27/08/01 +0800, you wrote:
>On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 03:00:34AM +0800, Lathiat wrote:
> > dselect is buggy
> > it often does this like it did to me at the installgest it randomly 
> removes
> > and installs packages you dont want it too
>
>Are you sure about this?  Very likely it installed and removed packages
>that you actually needed/couldn't have based upon other package requests
>that you made.  I used to think it was buggy but after finding it had
>selected a whole lot of packages for installation that I didn't want and
>tracing through all their dependencies I realised that it was actually
>trying to comply with my wishes.  It's easy to mistake not understanding
>what a program is doing with bugs in the program.
>
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