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In article <4s07nj$b48@taz.net.au>,
	cas@taz.net.au (Craig Sanders) writes:
>1. the slackware method of "upgrading" (and i use that term very loosely):

Been through that 1 too many times. What a pain!

>sick of sendmail, and want to try out smail instead?  no problem.  just
>use 'dpkg -r sendmail', followed by 'dpkg -i smail'.  or vice-versa.

Interesting you should use that as an example, I tried to do the above
when I tried Debian 0.93r5 (?). The sequence of events was:
	# dpkg -r sendmail
	"Sorry Dave I can't do that. A lot of packages depending on sendmail"
	"or smail being present."
Hmmm
	# dpkg -i smail
	"Sorry but smail conflicts with sendmail that is already installed"
Hmmm
	# dpkg -r --do-it-or-die sendmail
	"Sorry Dave I can't do that. A lot of packages depending on sendmail"
	"or smail being present."
Hmmm
	# dpkg -i --i-really-god-damn-mean-it smail
	"Sorry but smail conflicts with sendmail that is already installed"
Hmmm
	# rm -f /usr/sbin/sendmail
Yeah that felt good! But it didn't help.

This was probably a problem with the old Debian and has been fixed (I hope).

>redhat has a similar package system (but last i heard didn't support
>the notion of conflicts between packages), which also allows upgrading
>without reformatting.

Yep, no catch 22 system with RedHat. Although it does mean that the newbie
can twist the system badly if they don't know what they are doing.

Cheers.
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