Charles A Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 03 Oct 2002 19:46:26 +1000 > Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What is really disturbing to me is that the installer installs both. > > This means that the installer installs RPMs blind, just ignoring any > > errors. > > > > No such error was recorded in the /root install logs. That is not a > > good recipe for a sound installation and customer confidence in the > > product. > > Unlike RH the Mandrake installer does not check for conflicts only for > Requires.
I think that's not really true. When generating the hdlists, we check for conflicts, provides etc. This is the first step. Second step, during install, we suppose conflicts have been checked, so we prefer installing with a few conflictsm rather than refusing to install anything. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
