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Re: Handling alien packages gracefully

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On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Joey Hess wrote:

> Bruce Perens:
> > From: Scott Ellis <storm@gate.net>
> > > I think the first bit to keep from breaking things is to make sure that
> > > packages converted by alien aren't installed with --force-overwrite
> > > enabled.
> > 
> > Good point. I think this is part of the way to handle the problem.
> 
> I agree, this is a good idea. How can I implement it in alien?

Have alien call dpkg with --no-force-overwrite if invoking it directly.
Should probably also disable it from dpkg and fix the few remaining
packages that need it.

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|                    |      Your friends will know you better in the     |
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