On Wednesday 08 January 2003 06:53 pm, Bryan Whitehead honored me with this
communique:
> Steve Fox wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 12:32, Bryan Whitehead wrote:
> >>In the real world, sysadmins just find a solution (like redoing the crap
> >>ass RPM someone made) and move on with life. If you don't like
> >>dependancy checking, then don't use urpmi. Use the plain rpm command.
> >>Write your own scripts as a wrapper. Or just patch urpmi yourself for
> >>your own needs. It's not rocket-science! ;)
> >
> > Wow, what a well thought-out response! You're a freaking genius!
> >
> > I NEED dependency checking. What I am asking for is the tool to only
> > worry about dependencies which are affected by the action being
> > requested.
>
> Thanks for clarifying. The message I replied to originally implied you
> didn't like the dependacy checking / resolving features of urpmi.
>
> > There is no reason for urpmi to care about unrelated dependencies which
> > I made a conscious decision to break knowing very well the potential
> > results.
>
> Your right on this. I second the motion to keep urpmi from being some
> wannabe apt.
I understood from the start what he was getting at, it seemed like he made it
pretty clear. And I'm glad you understand now, because if you're a sysadmin,
you know the ugly implications of fingers (human or software) getting in
where they don't belong. There is a definite difference between "breaking"
and "refining" an app.
Jay
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Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin
with, that it's compounding a felony.
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