On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 20:43 +0000, Douglas Furlong wrote: > Paul Howarth wrote: > >Which just goes to show, --nodeps and --force are measures of last > >resort when it comes to RPM options. Dependencies are usually there for > >a reason... > > > >Cheers, Paul. > > > > > The only time I have ever used --nodeps and --force was to remove what I > percieved as a "borked" package and then re-install it shortly afterwards... > > I know there are probably many more reasons, but thought I'd list one :) That's not too unreasonable, but I'd use: rpm --replacepkgs --replacefiles package.rpm for that (overwriting the existing package with a new copy); using -- force or --nodeps just feels wrong to me. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
