On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 21:19, Vox wrote:
> This time Steve Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> becomes daring and writes:
> 
> > On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 19:47, Vox wrote:
> >
> >>   Easy to fix:
> >> 
> >>   rpm -e --justdb SuperFoo 
> >
> > While that is certainly a solution, it seems like an awful nasty hack.
> > (but thanks for the tip :)
> >
> > I would much prefer to see the tool remain smart. Really, why should it
> > even care if unrelated dependencies are unresolved? It's kind of like
> > getting into other people's business even though they didn't ask you to.
> > (ok, maybe that's not the best analogy, but it's all I can think of)
> 
>   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 must say I disagree here. He surely do care for deps and that --justdb
trick is just like installing a tarball on an rpm system.

Leaving the SuperFoo in the rpm database allows to keep track of the
installed files and remove them easily.

There should be a way to tell urpmi to ignore a certain list of rpm and
only deal with what it knows, i.e. what is in the hdlist.
-- 
Quel Qun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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