Robert Milkowski wrote:
michael schuster wrote:
Robert Milkowski wrote:
michael schuster wrote:
Robert Milkowski wrote:
People won't use --nodeps by default only under some situations
when it is required.
I think this may actually turn out to be wrong in some cases: once
people get used to using --nodeps (maybe during a spell of
inconsistency in a repo, which needs to be fixed, not worked
around), they'll put it in an alias or wrapper script and forget
about it.
I haven't observed such behavior on Linux system where --nodeps is
available for many years.
Have you?
not specifically, but I've seen people type "rm -rf" out of habit. I
think it's (almost) analogous.
Michael
No, it's not. Most sysadmins don't even know about --nodeps on Linux as
it is rather rare to need it.
If it is rare to need it, why are you so fervently saying the workaround
is not enough? Why do we have to spend time discussing a rarely
necessary option?
Antonello
Unless you expect --nodeps to be required on OS because too many
packages being broken too often so people would use it by-default I
wouldn't worry about it.
Then again, the moment you let sysadmin in there are many ways he/she
can harm a system and there's not much you can do about it except for
making administration easy for them. By not providing --nodeps you are
making it hard for them in some cases so each of them will come up with
some workaround making the situation only worse.
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