the name "urpmi" does sound stupid, like somebody belching.  why do linux programmers 
give 
their software such silly names?  guess they dont have sales or packaging departments 

Quoting Jay DeKing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> 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
> 
> -- 
> Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin
> with, that it's compounding a felony.
>                 -- Robert Benchley
> 
> 
> 
> 



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