On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Pollywog wrote:
> I am getting into some kind of loop and I need to remove perl-base
> (temporarily) but it is an essential package. The other way around this is to
> activate APT::Force LoopBreak but I don't know what that means and the apt man
> pages do not tell me what that is.
They do, it is in apt.conf
Force-LoopBreak
Never Enable this option unless you -really- know
what you are doing. It permits APT to temporarily
remove an essential package to break a Con
flicts/Conflicts or Conflicts/Pre-Depend loop
between two essential packages. SUCH A LOOP SHOULD
NEVER EXIST AND IS A GRAVE BUG. This option will
work if the essential packages are not tar, gzip,
libc, dpkg, bash or anything that those packages
depend on.
I think you can enable it in this case, the perl situation is very
strange.
Jason
