On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 05:10:43PM -0700, Brock Pytlik wrote:
> Ok, so now the claim is "while we provide mechanisms to get around the  
> issues of poor packaging, they're not convenient enough"? That's a  
> substantially different issue than "we need --force or --no-deps".
>
> My argument against --force or --no-deps is fairly simple: they give you  
> the *illusion* of fixing your system in a supported way ...

Hah, yes.  This reminds me of the old, "ZFS can't possibly be as robust
as UFS, because it doesn't have fsck," argument.

-j
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