I agree pretty much with Herrold's advise on forcing RPM installs.
I myself had to deal with messed systems because of that, however
let me point out, that you really screw systems up when you _force_
installation of _system_ _libraries_ . Applicatons in general don't
break systems.
-mtm
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, R P Herrold wrote:
>
> ... this is off the general topic of ssh, so I'll make
> short and sweet. This is an ongoing thread in redhat-devel,
> with John Summerfield in AU holding RH's feet to the coals.
>
> Don't fall into the trap of --force and --nodeps -- get the
> dependencies right and don't force -- to do otherwise will
> result, eventually, in an unusable machine. I speak from the
> experience of cleaning up after less experiences sysadmins who
> took this route.
>
