On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 03:45:15PM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:

> A yet "cleaner" way to do this is (after the command above) to install 
> qmail-src ("apt-get install qmail-src"), which compiles and installs
> the MTA for you in the post install process!

Using exactly the same forced dependancy mechanism - you can watch dpkg
scream bloody murder without typing the commands yourself.  :-)

The only way around this would be for dpkg to support simultaneous
installation and removal, but this is probably not worth the hassle.

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