On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 12:24 +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: > 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. > Absolutely agree. I have already raised this issue a year ago, but without success.. --
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