Comment # 1 on bug 1054605 from Martin Pluskal

(In reply to Shad Sterling from comment #0)
> Far too often I get file conflicts where what obviously needs to happen is
> an old package needs to be replaced by the conflicting new package but
> there's apparently no way to tell zypper to do that.
> 
> Every time it comes up I spend a few hours trying to understand which
> packages are involved, searching for a way to install and remove in a single
> command, or for a replace command, or for a way to `zypper up` but exclude
"zypper dup" should be used for tumbleweed updating. Apart from that I wonder
what would be that "simple replacement" - what would you suggest?