On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 03:28:59PM +0000, nosp wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 15:26, seth vidal wrote: > > Yah, you can't do that. > > Thanks for the quick response. I won't do an RFE since I think it's not > likely to be a frequently-requested feature. Furthermore, it's not likely to be accepted. It is the firm policy of yum to never help you avoid dependencies. For example, there is no "--force" option. While there are certainly legitimate uses for such "features", they are used inappropriately much more frequently. If --force (or this feature) exists, many people will use it as their first response to a problem rather than fixing the problem itself. We'd rather not provide a tool that makes it so easy to thoroughly wonkify your system :) It's a design tradeoff. Protect the inexperienced. The experienced users can get around such problems (either by installing via 'rpm --force' or by installing a package which satisfies the dependancy). -Michael -- Michael Stenner Office Phone: 919-660-2513 Duke University, Dept. of Physics mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxx Box 90305, Durham N.C. 27708-0305
