[Gllug] Stop apt-get fretting about packages installed by force

[Paul Cupis]

Tet wrote:
> On 4/18/06, Martin A. Brooks <martin at hinterlands.org> wrote:
>> Well, don't.  If it's not available in Debian directly then either
>> compile from source or, if it's in unstable etc, backport it.
>>
>> Installing .debs from other distros _will_ screw up your system.
> 
> Yaaay! Finally, debian bigots have had to admit that RPM "dependency
> hell" problems are not an inherent fault in RPM, but an artifact of
> mixing packages from different sources, and that .debs suffer from
> *exactly* the same problems.

Yes, it is an inherent problem with mixing sources of packages, which is
why IME Debian has been better than any other distro I've tried.

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