On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Bryan Paxton wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Frank Meurer wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Bryan Paxton wrote:
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> > > Also, how do we stop all the --forces ? I know from my brief experience with
> > > debian I _never_ had to force a package to install. The question is, is this
> > > a result of bad maintaining of the .spec files ? Or is this simply RPM's ugly
> > > side ? Remember, too many --forces can corrupt a DB and turn-off a user from
> > > even wanting to mess with said package.
> > Er... in this case above "--force" won't work IMHO!
> >
>
> hrmmm ? what won't work ?
IMHO "--force" won't work but "--nodeps" will work.
I don't know because I don't use "--force"! :-))
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> *nod* but why not jump in ahead to offer something appealing and easy to manage
> for the sys admin ?
Ahh! That's the point!
You say: deb is easy to use (or easy to manage).
Jose says: rpm is easy because it protects user from doing wrong.
I say: Now we should define "easy"... :-)
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