RE: [Cooker] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION - Address dependency issue better

[Geoffrey Lee]

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> "Hoyt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > Nothing is more annoying than to try and intall an rpm and have it fail
> > because of a dependency issue, only to 1)have =that= rpm fial because of
> > another dependency issue, or 2) have the dependency




you are saying because package foo requires package bar so you must also
download package bar to satisfy pacakge foo right ??


just use rpm --force ...e.g. i don't insall the mandrake_desk package becuse
i don't ened it so i use --force for wmaker. it's only in some cases that
you should use --force anyway.




be some library
> > buried in an rpm that isn't easily discernable. The program ezrpm
> > address some of these issues, some other approaches to package
> > management seem to be able to address these issues.
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> I can see the 2nd point, but can you make the 1st point a little bit more
> clear to me ? thanks a lot :-).
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> Guillaume Cottenceau
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