Bug#362553: apt: hiddeous syntax award for -oDPkg::Options::=
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.6.43.3
>
> Apt wins the hiddeous syntax award for the day:
>
> apt-get -oDPkg::Options::=--force-overwrite install {debianutils,passwd}/stable
>
> It doesn't work without the second pair of double-colons, which I
> don't understand, haven't seen used anywhere else, thus undocumented,
> is unintuitive, and well, ugly.
Why do you need that, and for a stable package? Please file bugs about
conflicting files.
MfG
Goswin
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