On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 16:01:30 +0100
xavier.humbert@xavhome.fr.eu.org (Xavier HUMBERT) wrote:

> Could you explain the difference between "delete/reinstall" and
> "replace" ?

replace will remember which packages depend upon the one you are updating,
and will fix dependancy records for all these packages to point to the new
version. Forcing a deinstall with -f will cause dependancies to be lost.
All of this, afaik. I may be wrong.

HTH

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