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Re: uninstalling smail when a self compiled MTA is present



On Tue, 05 Jan 1999 01:43:06 -0500, you wrote:
>	You may have to use 'dpkg --purge --force-depends smail' to delete
>smail, then immediately install your MTA.  If '--force-depends' doesn't
>work check 'man dpkg' for the other '--force' options ('dpkg --help' or
>'--force-help' may be sufficient).

Sounds like a bad brute-force approach. Can't dpkg do the remove and
the install of the equivs package in a single operation? Or can I
"update" smail with equivs?

Should this be filed as a wish-list bug?

Greetings
Marc

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