On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 12:04:20PM -0400, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > Despite the disclaimer about error checking, I have had good > results with it.
just paranoia. i've never had a problem with it. the message is there mostly to let people know that it's the kind of tool which makes it real easy to shoot off your own foot. > I have also reversed it to make dpkg-unhold. yep, and i've made a "dpkg-purge" too which i occasionally find useful (mostly when semi-auto building servers by merging in various --get-selections lists, which i have to do nowadays because going through dselect just takes too long). craig -- craig sanders -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]