Peter Tribble wrote:
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.
supportable has multiple meanings here:
* supportable by Sun
* supportable by the packaging system
* supportable from a correctness/auditing standpoint
In short, requiring the packaging system to account for and deal with
broken package graphs would require substantial, additional development
for functionality that is supposedly 'rarely' needed so 'should be ok'
as supporters of it have mentioned.
So, yes, based on the above criteria, it is not 'supportable'.
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
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