>
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
>
> I often do just that =if= I understand what the dependency is all
> about, and for the average new user, that will be never.
>
force is there because you get flexibility with rpm, dependencies aren't
meant to be broken, though i often break mine
don't worryt oo much, the average new user probably can't live without X.
things like gnorpm warn the user that breaking the dependency isn ot a good
idea but it still allow you to do it. not sure about kpackage though.
though i must admit that it's a litle hard to understand the dependency if
there are .so. files installed, because say you need libfoo.so.1 for a
particular package, you might not know what package provides taht ...
not even knows how to do a for i in *;do rpm rpm -qpl $i | grep -qi
'libfoo.so.1' && echo $i
done ...
this is the only prob that i have ever had with dependency, otherwise it is
fine.
> Hoyt
>
