Alexander R. Eremin wrote: > On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 01:57 -0600, Shawn Walker wrote: >> The fact that you are required to install a heap of multimedia >> packages >> is a defect of either the packages, or the packaging system and >> should >> be resolved. Something like --no-deps is an ugly hack for a >> deficiency >> in the system. >> >> If you find that you're required to install multimedia packages that >> you >> don't need, please file a bug, and eventually we'll sort out a way so >> that you don't have to. > Ok. But for example I can do this easy in Linux - apt-get -f, apt-get > --nodeps, dpkg --ignore-missing. Nobody is afraid that as a result will > ruin system ;)
Ah, but they do. I have had to deal with more than one RedHat system that was unusable after another administrator --force'd and --no-dep'd it into oblivion. But what's easier here? An option where you can set multimedia=False or only install a minimal package cluster, or constantly having to specify --nodeps or --ignore-missing? Plus, you have to ensure that the result is supportable. If someone really wants to customise the distribution to the extent you're talking about, they could do so by changing and re-publishing various manifests... Ultimately though, I think functionality you're talking about needs to be thought out and planned; --nodeps is the hacky way out that will eventually come back and bite the user when the package manager can no longer make heads or tails of the package graph. -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
