would dpkg --ignore-deps likely clear this bottleneck?

Script started on Fri Mar 31 16:02:42 2006
debian:~# aptitude -f install

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Building tag database... Done The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
postgresql-doc-7.4 The following packages have been kept back:
common-lisp-controller grub kdelibs-bin kdelibs-data kdelibs4c2a kexi
libacl1 libattr1 libexpat1 libghc6-hdbc-dev libghc6-hdbc-postgresql-dev
libhugs-hdbc libhugs-hdbc-postgresql libnewt0.52 libopenexr2c2a libtiff4
python-newt whiptail The following NEW packages will be installed:
x11-common The following packages will be REMOVED:
alien binutils-multiarch debhelper dh-make diffstat gforge-db-postgresql
html2text intltool-debian libbeecrypt6 libcanlock2 libmail-sendmail-perl
libneon25 librpm4 libsqlite3-0 lintian lsb-rpm metamail po-debconf
postgresql postgresql-client postgresql-doc rpm tin 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 24 to remove and 18 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1124kB of archives. After unpacking 42.2MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y


Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 64311 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking x11-common (from .../x11-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-5_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-5_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/etc/X11/Xsession', which is also in package xfree86-common
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-5_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xfree86-common:
xfree86-common depends on x11-common; however:
Package x11-common is not installed.
dpkg: error processing xfree86-common (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libx11-6:
libx11-6 depends on x11-common (>> 4.3.0); however:
Package x11-common is not installed.
dpkg: error processing libx11-6 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wv:
wv depends on libx11-6; however:
Package libx11-6 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing wv (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libwv-1.2-1:
libwv-1.2-1 depends on libx11-6; however:
Package libx11-6 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libwv-1.2-1 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
xfree86-common
libx11-6
wv
libwv-1.2-1
debian:~# exit
exit

Script done on Fri Mar 31 16:03:54 2006



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