On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 12:10:30PM -0600, Art Sackett wrote: > On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:19:48AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > > Huh? Why would you need to deinstall at, mailx, logrotate and mail > > readers in the first place? > > Well, you wouldn't *need* to, strictly speaking, but if you remove > exim, those things that depend upon mail-transport-agent will want > to go with it unless you work around it somehow. > > I'm one who'd just as soon never use dpkg --force, and can't see > installing the equivs package when I'm only going to need it for > about a minute.
So don't use dpkg --force ... use dpkg --ignore-depends. It's the only way to fly when doing stuff like this. -- Nathan E Norman "Eschew Obfuscation" email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://incanus.net/~nnorman Please don't Cc: me on list mail
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