In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 11/02/98 at 05:10 PM, "E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I seemed to remember that the X11 maintainer specifically mailed to this >list that the slink X packages were severely broken and only to be used >by brave peoply meaning to help with the debugging process. Ok. I'll reinstall X from the CD then. No problem with that. >I also had lots of trouble with the emacs20 package on hamm. Some people >suggested to remove the `tm' package. This worked on certain systems, >but on other systems there was no `tm' present at all. I got this sorted I'll try removing this "tm" thing, but what if it doesn't work? I can list the contents of the emacs20 package and remove files by hand, but how to I make the package management system believe that package emacs20 no longer exist? I don't want apt-get/dpkg to fail forever trying to deal with it. I have no problems with dubious software in the unstable tree, but this looks like a problem in the package management system itself. Unable to even remove a package (that nothing depends on anymore) because of a "very bad inconsistent state?" Helge Hafting
