Bug#100995: apt needs a "force" option

[Brian White <bcwhite@precidia.com>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.19

Apt-get really needs an option to "force" install a number of packages.
Sometimes, like after a power outage that corrupted one of my disks, I
need to reinstall a number of packages.

Unfortunaly, the only way to do that right now is to "dpkg --remove" them
and then "apt-get install" them.  Some packages are essential which means
I have to fetch them manually and "dpkg --install" those.

Anyway...  How about adding some way to always install a given list of
packages even if the system thinks they are up-to-date?

                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@precidia.com )

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