David R. Morrison wrote:
Unfortunately, we regularly have situations where --force-depends is necessary for upgrading. Anyone wanting to upgrade the kde packages had to do it. It was necessary for replacing xfree86 by Apple's X11. It will probably be necessary for upgrading to xfree86-4.3, and also for your new tetex.Thanks for the suggestion. However, using any of the --force flags from dpkg should really be a last resort, not something that people do very often. The problem is, when you do this you can leave your Fink installation in an inconsistent state, and it may later be impossible to fix it again.
I would prefer to have a paragraph in the docs that explains the command *and* the dangers over the present situation where more or less bored list members give the same advice over and over again, with less and less detailed explanations and occasional typos.
So I'm not actually in favor of adding this to the docs. But I'm forwarding your message (and my response) to the fink-devel mailing list in case there are other opinions.
Just my ¤0.02
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