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Lähettäjä: Hendrik Boom
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Aihe: Re: [DNG] packages held back due to conflict with libsystemd0
On Sun, Nov 08, 2020 at 02:17:24PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Nov 2020 06:51:07 -0500, Hendrik wrote in message
> <20201108115107.bvcwzgsfasqvzntk@???>:
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> > On Sun, Nov 08, 2020 at 05:48:49AM -0300, Eike Lantzsch via Dng wrote:
> > > Hi Arnt!
> > >
> > > On Saturday, 7 November 2020 21:56:38 -03 Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 07 Nov 2020 19:11:45 -0300, Eike wrote in message
>
> ...
>
> > > > ...with apt* et al. Is why I propose dpkg -P --force-* trains.
> > > >
> > > > .."-P" == "--purge", I failed to include that, I thought it was
> > > > obvious in the context of your thread here, my bad.
> > > >
> > > > ..by "just line or pile 'em up", I meant line up --force-* options
> > > > after "dpkg -P trumpackage" until it does obey your stupid
> > > > command. (It will still whine, because breaking your box is
> > > > generally considered stupid if you don't know how to fix it.)
> >
> > I presume "trumpackage" is the one you want to get rid of.
> > Don't use purge on the packages you'll want to reinstall -- you
> > probably want to retain their configurations.
>
> ..works best IME when you back those configs up first, then
> do the mercyless purgatory thing to the trumpage. ;o)


It isn't always obvious which configuration files go with which packages.

-- hendrik