Frank Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Charles A Edwards wrote:
> 
> >Had you not used --allow-force urpmi would have given you the same error
> >as did rpmdrake.
> >
> That's not what I would expect.  From the man page:
> 
>        --allow-force
>               Allow urpmi to ask user to continue installation using no depen-
>               dencies checking or forced installation due to error. By default
>               urpmi exit immediately in such case.
> 
> Previously, I've had it display the errors and then prompt me as to whether I
> want to continue.

I have to change the man page, now --allow-force authorize the resolution
dependencies algorithm to ignore unsatisfied dependencies in order to avoid
removing packages, this is a hack of course.

Why it has been added to this option ? Because --allow-force allo package to be
installed with broken dependencies, so we continue on the same road...

Francois.

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