[H-GEN] DSelect

[Anthony Ison]

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Hi all,

I've been playing around with debian's dselect and it looks really cool and
all....  When you install software, it happily tells you what you're missing
to make it all work.  However, when you unmark or uninstall software all the
other items are left behind.

My particular case is that I have marked an X task, then decided I didn't
want to download that much right then.  Unmarking the item I marked didn't
do a whole lot becuase it was basically a link to mark a whole lot of other
items.  Is there any way to make dselect sweep through items it has marked
for you and remove them if no longer necessary?

Cheers.
Anthony


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