Re: removal of essential packages

1999-09-23 Thread Dave McFadden

Re: removal of essential packages

1999-09-18 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Werner Reisberger wrote: > Once again I spent a lot of time with the debian package system. It seems > to be impossible to remove an essential package although dpkg offers > an option. When I am issuing the command > > dpkg --force-remo

Re: removal of essential packages

1999-09-18 Thread Ashley Clark
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Werner Reisberger wrote: > Once again I spent a lot of time with the debian package system. It seems > to be impossible to remove an essential package although dpkg offers > an option. When I am issuing the command > > dpkg --force-remove-essential perl-base > > only a he

removal of essential packages

1999-09-18 Thread Werner Reisberger
Once again I spent a lot of time with the debian package system. It seems to be impossible to remove an essential package although dpkg offers an option. When I am issuing the command dpkg --force-remove-essential perl-base only a help message is displayed. This is frustrating since dpk