On May 01 2001, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > A packaging problem. I did a `dpkg -i --force-overwrite > /var/cache/apt/archives/k*20010404-0*.deb` to install all the KOffice > packages.
This is the Wrong Thing(tm) to do. Any kind of --force-* is Nasty(tm) in a stable distribution (with development distributions it is OK and, AFAIK, the default). Of course, in a hurry, it works. But it is wrong. []s, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogerio Brito - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=