On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Shawn Walker<[email protected]> wrote: > Jonathan Edwards wrote: >> >> oh .. and I left something off my original list that I still don't >> understand (am guessing it's by design) and see as somewhat problematic with >> IPS: >> >> (5) missing no-deps or force install/remove > > This is intentional. The package system can't be expected to manage broken > packages. If we provided a --force or --no-deps option, that creates a > broken package graph, which inherently makes the system unmanageable. There > are no plans to implement that functionality.
That's unfortunate. It's the requirement that the system be manageable that drives requests for dependency overrides. 15 years of managing systems and software has demonstrated to me conclusively that you need to be able to override everything. Administrative tools are supposed to help administrators, not prevent them doing their job. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
