On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 15:38, Michael Stenner wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 03:28:59PM +0000, nosp wrote: [...] > > 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. [...] > 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). Sounds like an excellent tradeoff. Thanks for the explanation.
