>>> On 2/3/2009 at 11:27 AM, David Boyes <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/3/09 11:19 AM, "Mike Walter" <[email protected]> wrote: -snip- > They also "recommend" bypassing dependency > checking to force installation of this package, which strikes me as flat out > wrong. What's the point of a software configuration management system if you > bypass it or allow vendors to bypass it?
That is flat out wrong, and will likely result in a system that is not supported by the OS vendor. There have been times when I've had to use --nodeps for things, but it was definitely not my first choice, and I won't recommend that to any of my customers unless the engineering group tells me to do so. Even then I wouldn't like it, and would demand that the underlying problem get fixed so that the next update went on clean. When you're the one in control of the software and packaging of it, there's no excuse for leaving that kind of land mine out in the field. Mark Post
