Re: [Fink-devel] force-depends

2003-01-27 Thread Max Horn
At 19:29 Uhr +0100 27.01.2003, Martin Costabel wrote: On lundi, jan 27, 2003, at 16:30 Europe/Paris, Alexander Hansen wrote: It may not work when virtual packages are involved. I just did a test to see what would happen if I wanted to remove my xfree86 installation: [] On Mon, 2003-01-27 at

Re: [Fink-devel] force-depends

2003-01-27 Thread Martin Costabel
On lundi, jan 27, 2003, at 16:30 Europe/Paris, Alexander Hansen wrote: It may not work when virtual packages are involved. I just did a test to see what would happen if I wanted to remove my xfree86 installation: [] On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 09:55, David R. Morrison wrote: Hi. I've noticed an i

Re: [Fink-devel] force-depends

2003-01-27 Thread Alexander Hansen
It may not work when virtual packages are involved. I just did a test to see what would happen if I wanted to remove my xfree86 installation: [ldx3:~] hansen% sudo apt-get remove --no-act xfree86-rootless-threaded Password: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might

[Fink-devel] force-depends

2003-01-27 Thread David R. Morrison
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