Mike Corbeil wrote:
[snipped]
Well, if you *only* do --nodeps that's probably true, but if you use
--force you can get in trouble: the un-install could un-install stuff
that was really installed already.
un-install usually means removing stuff that was already installed, as far
as
Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
Mike Corbeil wrote:
[snipped]
Well, if you *only* do --nodeps that's probably true, but if you use
--force you can get in trouble: the un-install could un-install stuff
that was really installed already.
un-install usually means removing stuff
Mike Corbiel wrote:
However, one piece of documentation I came across yesterday said
that this
kind of problem is easier to avoid by avoiding RPMS and instead
using
.tar.gz downloads, and then running configure, make and install.
Actually,
this is the same piece of
Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
[snipped]
This sounds pretty odd to me. I mean, if you get the latest sources and
rebuild everything, then it should be reliable in that you know you
built for your system with the same libraries, but RPMs should work
well, too, most of the time.
The
