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Re: why is dpkg --force always enabled?



Previously Ethan Benson wrote:
> I have noticed that dpkg --force seems to always be enabled during
> apt operations, for example on the last lilo upgrade it overwrote the
> lilo.conf man page `because --force is enabled' 

--force-overwrite you mean, it's always enabled before a release. 99.9999%
of the times you get that warning it's a small packaging error but not
a problem. Aborting an installation because of that would be overly anal
and only confuse people.

Wichert.

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