Am Freitag, 28. Oktober 2005 11:30 schrieb Panu Matilainen: > 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 :) Hi Panu, I admit, that phrase was misworded, sorry, it was rather meant as a completeness issue, i.e.: if you have one way to shoot yourself into one foot, you're probably missing the other method for perforating the other one in a different way ;-) Have a nice day, Pete
