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.
