installing dpkg conflicts with /usr/sbin/update-alternatives

[Robert P. J. Day]

  to satisfy a recent need to create .deb files, i wanted to download and
install the "dpkg-1.6.15-2" rpm, but it apparently conflicts with the
symlink /usr/sbin/update-alternatives that already exists as part of the
chkconfig package.

  i'm not quite sure why dpkg incorporates the alternatives feature,
but what's the recommended way around this?  can i just cram it in with
"--force"?  (something i am always loath to do.)  i'm always a bit leery
about forcing rpm to do anything it doesn't like.  :-)

rday