Re: [Sheflug] dpkg --force-depends, KDE and PPP

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 01:23:02PM +0100, Richard Lowe wrote:
> I'm not sure.
> You could try and put the packes you forced on hold,
> (echo "packagename hold" | dpkg --set-selections).

	No, this doesn't work, just puts the package on hold, but it's
got an error on it, so no joy here...

> Or while I was searching for something else a while ago, I stumbled
> across equivs (apt-cache show equivs) I havent tried it, and I dont even
> know if its in potato (I use sid) but it could help I guess.

	Yes, that could be the answer. It looks as if it also present in
potato. I'll have a look (*groan*). I'd rather have a nicer way of doing
this, really...

	Cheers,
	José
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