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Like I said, thanks for the help.

Thanks for the inputs but does anybody remember dselect? I wasn't the only one to notice that the defaults seemed to think that if you wanted to install one package then of course you wanted to uninstall everything else. I'm not a newbie - I just don't understand why 'they' keep fixing things that a...

Here we go again: I've been trying to use Debian for about ten years now - my first kernel was 2.2 - when the thing to do was to compile your own optimized for your own hardware. Ever since then upgrades have been hosing my system and, as I have no interest in joining the esoteric ranks of the Debia...

That's all way beyond my patience/persistence level so I just ran 'keep-all'. So, let's say that affected 60 packages that had been installed by 'gnome' ; would they be the packages that apt-get now says it is 'not removing' (sorry, not sure of the exact phrase and I am not at that box right now), a...

What do you if you want to 'unkeep-all' later?