<quote who="dave kempe"> > Robert Collins wrote: > > for future reference: 'dpkg --force-depends -P udev' will remove it and > > leave ubuntu-minimal and initramfs-tools in place. > > hrmm I thought it was a cardinal debian sin to use --force?
In *very* particular cases, usually involving heavily broken systems, you just have to use --force to get anywhere at all. But in common usage, it's very rare that it would be required. Mary did the right thing, because to solve her problem, she didn't need to use force at all - she just needed to remember what was removed as a result of the changes she needed to make. I think Rob is suggesting it as a way to avoid removing the other packages, but it's a bit over the top for that. I can count the times I've had to use --force on Debian/Ubuntu systems on one hand, and most of those were cleanups after someone broke the system with unnecessary use of --force. :-) Norty Rob! - Jeff -- GUADEC 2006: Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain http://2006.guadec.org/ "People who paid for bug fixes in the 3c501 driver also bought MacIIfx support contracts..." - Alan Cox -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
