Clif Smith said: > This is a little off topic as I'm dealing with Redhat 2.1AS in this > scenario, but please read on. You could have at least used the Taroon-list. > Currently, I just do a rpm --Uvh --nodeps to allow the > packages to be installed, knowing I'm installing the necessary > dependants, but possibly not in the "correct" order. This doesn't fall under a good reason to use "--nodeps" (there aren't many). If you install the RPMs using one command (for example rpm -Uvh *.rpm) then RPM takes care of the dependancies. Using nodeps leaves the possibility of missed packages, version conflicts, etc. -- William Hooper
