On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 02:08 -0600, Shawn Walker wrote: > 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. You are right - I think that if to create the most various clusters for various needs it would be great. Then certainly it is possible to do without hacking. --
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