This time Steve Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes daring and writes: > On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 23:19, Vox wrote: > >> I actually like to think that urpmi getting old unresolved deps >> flagged is A Good Thing(tm). If you don't care for deps, don't use a >> package *manager*. > > I totally appreciate that for packages which are being > upgraded/installed. But for stuff that's not being modified, it > shouldn't worry about it. > > The whole "all dependencies must always be resolved" is nice if you live > in your closed little world where smart packagers like Mandrake create > proper dependencies. > > But in the Real World (tm), there are idiots who package things to fit > in their little world. They won't listen to me when I say to use a > "Requires: java" instead of "Requires: IBM-JDK".
Then use the ugly little hack to go around their ugly little hack, and keep yelling at them...if it's closed source stuff, I bet you are paying them...so...yell at them a lot...if they don't want to fix it, yell at their boss or at their boss' boss...keep going up the lather, it'll happen, specially if it's an expensive product that is not widely deployed in the world. Vox -- Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr.
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