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 -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``BAM! Science triumphs again!'' -- http://www.angryflower.com/vegeta.gif
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