On Fri, 27 Sep 2019, Adam Borowski wrote: > > The "init" package has the "Important: yes" control field which as I
> That flag is not for "without an explicit user choice". It's for "you're > breaking the packaging system, far more than ignoring dependencies". This is wrong. > It's the biggest hammer dpkg has. This is wrong; the biggest hammer is Conflicts without Replaces, or Pre-Depends. bye, //mirabilos -- Sometimes they [people] care too much: pretty printers [and syntax highligh- ting, d.A.] mechanically produce pretty output that accentuates irrelevant detail in the program, which is as sensible as putting all the prepositions in English text in bold font. -- Rob Pike in "Notes on Programming in C"
