Re: Koffice bug - still open?
Rogerio Brito wrote:
>
> 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.
Well, in this case (man page is packaged twice), the only thing that can
go wrong is, that the man page is removed, when I e.g. remove kchart.
Not exactly a Big Deal(tm). But I guess you're right, nonetheless.
Ciao,
Viktor
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