On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Darren J Moffat<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I think of two reasons why you would want to ignore dependencies:
>
>        1) time to install all the dependencies
>        2) space need to install all the dependencies
>        Are there others ?

3. The dependency information is plain wrong

4. You want package A but not package B that it depends on. (Or packages
C, D, E, F... that get pulled in.) Am I managing the system, or is the system
managing me?

5. The dependency graph become so dense and knotted that it's impossible
to make any changes. And, yes, I've seen this several times.

-- 
-Peter Tribble
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
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