Peter Tribble wrote:
By installing a package with incorrect dependencies you've caused just as much chance of damaging the operation of the system, but the packaging system is now completely unaware of it and the system is more likely to be unmaintainable. If you tell the packaging system to override dependencies, then it's got a record that you've done it and can do something about it later (even if that's just telling you what a fool you were).
No. What you're doing is specifying a new manifest (the original minus dependencies). Pkg(5) then correctly installs this, and it will audit this and insure that this package is correctly installed as per its manifest. What we don't want to do is have pkg(5) support one ore more levels of "broken" install. We'd much rather you modify the package to contain whatever it is you want, and then republish it. If you examine what publisher produced this package, it won't be Sun (or Oracle ;-)), it will be you, because you're taking over publication (and responsibility) for this package. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance [email protected] http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird." _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
