John Summerfied wrote: > Matthew Miller wrote: > >> > >> >>> 2) Can't force a package to install if there are some minor >>> dependencies >> >> >> A.k.a "doesn't let you break your system". :) >> > > For some packages, some dependencies don't matter for some uses. An > imaginary example, Mozilla could 'require shockwave-player-plugin,' but if > it's not present it will happily work and not provide the ability to play > shockwave. Which (from my experience with Ubuntu) leads to trying to figure out why certain features of a progam don't work, even though the package management tools say everything is OK. -- William Hooper
