On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 07:34 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
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> Case D, Current Behaviour: User tries to upgrade coreutils. User gets a
> big flashy block error saying coreutils blocks mktemp. User doesn't
> realise that the safe upgrade path is to force the package manager to
> ignore the block, then manually uninstall mktemp straight afterwards.
> User instead uninstalls mktemp, which is a moderately critical binary.

Or user uninstalls coreutils - yes, a colleague of mine actually did...

/haubi/
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Michael Haubenwallner
Gentoo on a different level

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