Telling every fink user to do this is idiotic.
Why do you write this to me? I complained to the maintainer immediately when this came out (*), but although I can imagine several solutions of the problem myself, I'll leave it to him to fix it. In the meantime, I will go on helping others if I have the time.
BTW, there *is* a related FAQ: #4.8 http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/comp-general.php#node-exists
Similar problems have been discussed many times, and until the great rewriting of the dep engine happens, there seems to be no satisfactory solution. I recall the xfree86-upgrade package, for example, which just does the force-removing via a shell script.
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Martin
(*) This was already a week ago. And there is another bug I mentioned then, which prevents installing this package remotely when you are not logged in at the console.
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