Should I add this Repo?

[Derek Broughton]

Leonard Chatagnier wrote:

> Brother reqauires you to use the --force option in order to install their
> printer drivers on Linux/Ubuntu. They have the best Linux/Ubuntu support
> and I don't think they would tell you to do something that would break
> anything. 

Well, they would...  There's _many_ force options, but what they all have in
common is the fact that using them is guaranteed to break something.  You
just have to hope you're never going to need whatever has been broken. The
most likely reason why you would need to use a "force" option in a
third-party package is because it's trying to install a file that is
already provided in another package - and there _are_ ways to get around
that, but using --force-overwrite is simple (and lazy).


-- 
derek