On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 02:37:01PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > Jens Elkner wrote: > >So --force is something, what give's us the freedom we need!!! > > No, you're confusing package refactoring with broken dependencies. I'm not sure, why both are unrelated ...
> Your particular usage case needs package refactoring; That's for sure. > not --force. In an ideal world/theory - right. But the real world, our Solaris experience as well as the pretty often stressed "backward compatibiliy" "motto?" heared on every official Sun event tought us a different lesson. And wrt. the huge pile of software [and its part. circular dependencies] and 'works for me @home' developers I assume, there will be always packages, which do not fit/need to be fixed/refactored. And even if one has commercial support, we know, that it'll take at minimum more than a year, to get it fixed. So --force is not required in theory, but in the real world definitely! Regards, jel. -- Otto-von-Guericke University http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/ Department of Computer Science Geb. 29 R 027, Universitaetsplatz 2 39106 Magdeburg, Germany Tel: +49 391 67 12768
