Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> writes: >> At least "apt-get -d --force-depends install foo" should download >> stuff so one can "dpkg -i --force-depends foo.deb". Sucks if you have >> to use --print-uris and wget. > > Actually, the download part is the least painful part. The problem is > that subsequent uses of aptitutde will burp because the package is > deemed "BROKEN". When I've had to use such haks in the past I often > ended up letting aptitude remove the "broken" package, and then re-add > it manually afterwards. But if you update weekly, like I do, it quickly > gets very tedious, especially when you start having more than one such > special case and when it occasionally needs extra packages. > > > Stefan
Actualy I do that too and it is anyoing. Say you have A installed with force (or half installed with dpkg due to some dependency) then you can not use apt/aptitude at all even to install C that is totaly unrelated to A. Maybe "apt-get install C" should only warn about A being broken when C has no dependency to A. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org