On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > Am Freitag, 28. Oktober 2005 08:24 schrieb Konstantin Ryabitsev: >> On Thu, 2005-27-10 at 23:14 -0700, Panu Matilainen wrote: >>> I've been actually thinking of making a "cli-extras" plugin which >>> adds pretty much everything-you-can-think-of cli-option to yum for >>> us cli-junkies :) Just haven't gotten around to do it. >> >> Make sure it includes "--force". > > Hey icon, how much use is that without --nodeps? --force and --nodeps have actually little in common, other than both being in "generally you shouldn't do that" category. For example a perfectly valid use for --force is reinstalling a package which requires overwriting the package contents, which in turn has nothing to do with --nodeps. If you need both --nodeps and --force simultaneously you're really doing something you shouldn't :) - Panu -
