Re: Aptitude's reintall

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2007-12-29 19:35 +0100, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:

> Why not have aptitude: 1) retreive the deb(s) required; 2) deinstall the
> package and verify that it is nolonger installed; 3) immediatly
> reinstall the package and verify that that it is now installed.  

Sounds rather dangerous to me.  You would not really want to try this
with an essential package, would you?

> Currently running programs won't be affected, only attempts to run new
> instances while the reinstall is happening.

And running programs that load files from their installation at runtime
(like Emacs, Zsh, Vim, ...).

Sven.