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>From apt-get(8):
"Similarly a plus sign can be used to designate a package to install. These
latter features may be used to override decisions made by apt-get's
conflict resolution system."
Appending a plus sign doesn't seem to override the conflict resolution, e.g.
# apt-get -u install sendmail+
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
qmail
The following NEW packages will be installed:
sendmail
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
Need to get 918kB of archives. After unpacking 1327kB will be used.
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On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Niall Young wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.5.4
>
> >From apt-get(8):
>
> "Similarly a plus sign can be used to designate a package to install. These
> latter features may be used to override decisions made by apt-get's
> conflict resolution system."
>
> Appending a plus sign doesn't seem to override the conflict resolution, e.g.
>
> # apt-get -u install sendmail+
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> qmail
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> sendmail
> 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
> Need to get 918kB of archives. After unpacking 1327kB will be used.
What conflict resolution is there? You told apt to install sendmail, which it
is doing. Doing so requires that it remove qmail. Your + does nothing to
change that.
