On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 01:30:45AM +0300, Martin-�ric Racine wrote: > On a related issue, has anyone found a way to make the 3 packages that > coreutils > replaces be a actually removed, instead of being overwritten but still marked > as > installed? Failure to do so seems to allow for the possibility of all 3 > trying > to reinstall themselves, if Stable or Testing is pinned with a higher priority > that unstable.
personally, i still have fileutils installed because of dpkg not being able to do versioned pseudopackages. but i've purged shellutils and textutils. in any case, fileutils is an empty package. -- Revolutions do not require corporate support.

