Re: Getting back with dselect

From: Colin Watson (cjwatson_at_debian.org)
Date: 05/12/04

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    Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 13:33:51 +0100
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    On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 01:19:52PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
    > On (12/05/04 14:23), Vittorio wrote:
    > > I've erroneously asked dselect to install many packages which entail
    > > the download of an incredible amount of other dependent packages
    > > (something like 600 MB of stuff), as I can see asking to install.
    > >
    > > Now I don't want all this to happen but don't know how to get back,
    > > I mean how, using dselect (or in case apt-get), to deselect all
    > > those packages automagically selected.
    >
    > Press ? in the selections menu and select k for keystrokes; it will show
    > you R to revert to the previous state before your current selections.

    That only works if you haven't left the Select screen since making the
    selections you want to revert. See #151540 for a patch adding the
    feature Vittorio wants, and discussion of how you can sort of do it in a
    confusing way without the patch. 

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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