Re: Proposed change to dpkg behaviour
Ian Jackson writes:
>
> The whole point is to get package A removed without prompting !
>
> What's the problem with that ?
I guess it's less a problem than an uneasiness. I thought of the case
where package A could just decide that it had a "better" copy of
/sbin/really_important_binary, and install it, but I think that that would
be reported as a bug pretty fast.
Having upgraded my system from early .93R6 to current last night, and
seeing things like tcl74 replacing tcl, and the pains to get that to happen,
I think that this would, in general, be a VERY good thing.
(Of course, assuming despotic tyrants)
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