Apt for RPM question, blocking certain rpms

[Erich Schroeder <erich@museum.state.il.us>]

Hi,
  Well, I have a special-purpose RedHat installation in which I must not
install the PHP, gd-devel, and other rpm packages because they get in the 
way of the special-purpose by muddy-ing up the versions.
  I'm afraid of my poor memory getting in me in trouble when I do 
upgrades or installs, so I was looking for an option that would tell apt 
to not install certain packages without a force. I figure it must be in 
there because that is just about how the kernel packages work, but the man 
pages all seem to be the original debian-based, so don't have rpm-specific 
information. 
  I'm still searching as I send this, so I'll probably answer my own 
question, but making my questions public often seems to be a catalyst for 
my mind.

eks

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