On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 12:30:19PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 02:20 +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote: > > People, > > > > Is there some way of getting the equivalent of "--nodeps" for yum > > during install/update? > > > > No and I will not add one. > > This is a nonstarter for me - I will not let yum hose up someone's > system b/c of --nodeps or --force behavior. > > -sv Seth, I understand your position but I have a custom install of perl (a couple of perl modules are hard to get as rpms) and it is maddening to regularly have rpm installs fail because of perl dependencies . . Regards, Phil.