On 22 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I recently upgraded a gnome-related package using dselect's apt > method. When dpkg installed the package it said that it was > overwriting /usr/lib/somegnomelibrary.so because the --force option > was specified. This resulted in all older gnome programs that are > linked to this library to stop working. I'd prefer a message stating > that this package can't be installed because of these conflicting > files.
This is not an APT bug, dpkg has the --force-overwrite option enabled by default. In the latest CVS apt you can specify custom dpkg options and turn this off if you want. Jason
