Hi. I've noticed an increasing trend on the fink-users and fink-beginners list to give advice of using "dpkg -r --force-depends" when dpkg conflicts are encountered, and I wonder if we can find something better to suggest to people. I'm concerned that the routine use of --force-depends will put a lot of people's Fink installations into an unstable state.
What about suggesting that people use apt-get instead? Somebody here, I forget who, pointed this out to me as a great tool: using "sudo apt-get remove" will resolve the dependencies that are needed for a removal, and it should hopefully work in a wide variety of situations. Has anyone seen situations where this leads to trouble? (Before we start advising a lot of users to use it!) -- Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
