Bug#201197: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#201197: plus sign doesn't override conflicts)
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 02:19:00PM +0800, Niall Young wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Adam Heath wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Niall Young wrote:
> > > On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > > >
> > > > What conflict resolution is there? You told apt to install sendmail, which it
> > > > is doing. Doing so requires that it remove qmail. Your + does nothing to
> > > > change that.
> > >
> > > I'm confused then, conflict resolution to me would be parsing the
> > > Conflicts line and finding that mail-transport-agent conflicts with
> > > sendmail, thereby uninstalling qmail.
So that's what apt did. Both before you appended + and when you appended
it.
> > > If not, what is the man page actually suggesting?
> >
> > Um, are you dense?
>
> No, but you're damn rude. Can you please explain to me what the man
> page is actually suggesting then?
He's not rude, you quoted the meaning yourself:
> "Similarly a plus sign can be used to designate a package to install."
> "These
> latter features may be used to override decisions made by apt-get's
> conflict resolution system."
>
> Can you please explain what this last sentence means, if not to override
> qmail being removed?
Install _this_ package at all cost - overriding the choice made by the
conflict resolution algorithm if necessary.
Regards,
Filip
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