On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Shawn Walker<[email protected]> wrote: > Peter Tribble wrote: >> > > Actually, I'd argue that the system becomes *unmanageable* once you start > using --force or --no-deps. As another person pointed out recently, it > essentially means that the user may end up having to do --force or --no-deps > for every single package operation after the first time they use it.
Really? ManySolaris boxes I've seen have a broken package graph. They've been entirely manageable. (Usually, more manageable.) That ignoring dependencies *can* damage your system is clearly true, and perhaps fatally; that doing so is guaranteed in all circumstances to wreck your system is obviously false. > Remember our goal here is to create a *supportable* system, and I would > guess that the majority of use cases you have now do not require or need > --force or --no-deps. Supportable by whom? If you mean removing the ability of the administrator to support the system and forcing them to go crying to their vendor through a support contract every time there's a problem, then I suppose that's one way to increase support revenue. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
