On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 06:45:13AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 07:10:53PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > I don't see how a woody that is known to contain file conflicts and that
> > has force-overwrite turned off is any better at all then one with them
> > turned on.
> Because it will screw things up later?
Not doing it'll screw things up immediately. We've always had a policy of
enably --force-overwrites in stable releases.
> (If we really don't care about
> file conflicts, why are we doing this packaging thing at all?)
*We* care about them. We don't like forcing users who'd rather not worry
to have to care about them, however.
Cheers,
aj
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