On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Alexander Eremin<[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.. > -- > > ::alhazred
+1 Even conary provides this and all others do. IPS is the only system I know of, which doesn't offer a "--no-deps" alike functionality. What about "-R <alternate root>" ? %m _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
