On Tue, Mar 16, 2004, Mike's List wrote:
>bash-2.05b# openpkg rpm --erase postfix
>error: Failed dependencies:
> MTA is needed by (installed) qpopper-4.0.5-2.0.0
> MTA is needed by (installed) pine-4.58L-2.0.0
>
>I've added --force, but rpm -e doesn't seems to work. Is there a way to
>remove a package (force) even when dependencies failed? I want to remove
>postfix binary package and rebuild it from source.
I think that ``openpkg build -z postfix'' command should generate the
appropriate commands to do this.
In any case, --force doesn't tell it to ignore dependencies, but
needs the --nodeps option as well:
rpm --force --nodeps -U ...
Bill
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