On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 20:38 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> 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! Well, the reason I would use --force in such situations is that reverse depends often are not equal to the forward depends. So what gets removed and what gets reinstalled will often not match. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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