Re: 7.5.1 Overwriting files in other packages

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 08:19:05PM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> 
>  Is this always true?
> 
> 7.5.1 Overwriting files in other packages
> 
>  Firstly, as mentioned before, it is usually an error for a package to
>  contain files which are on the system in another package, though
>  currently the --force-overwrite flag is enabled by default,
>  downgrading the error to a warning,

The CVS version no longer has the part "though currently ..." as this
is not currently true.

   Julian

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