On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 07:34 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: <snip> > Case D, Current Behaviour: User tries to upgrade coreutils. User gets a > big flashy block error saying coreutils blocks mktemp. User doesn't > realise that the safe upgrade path is to force the package manager to > ignore the block, then manually uninstall mktemp straight afterwards. > User instead uninstalls mktemp, which is a moderately critical binary.
Or user uninstalls coreutils - yes, a colleague of mine actually did... /haubi/ -- Michael Haubenwallner Gentoo on a different level -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
