On 11/3/05, Kevin Dangoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11/3/05, Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thursday 03 November 2005 9:01 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I would say, don't suggest the -D option as if it is safe. It may > > > interfere with existing packaging system. > > > > > > Better suggest a non-root installation and if that is not wanted, the > > > -D option and take whatever consequence that may result. > > > > Ideally, if an equivalent package is already installed, it should just be > > used > > and not replaced. I guess this is what --ignore-conflicts-at-my-risk does? > > The message is not clear to me. > > Not exactly. TurboGears needs to use the eggs because they provide > additional metadata that does not exist in the non-egg packages > (version number, for instance). The ignore conflicts option, as I > understand it, will still install the egg but it will also leave the > old package there. I think the "at my risk" is because it won't always > be clear what you've got when you do "import elementtree".
Wouldn't another option be to rpm -e elementtree (or whatever rpm provides elementree) to remove the conflict? There might be depency problems that prevent that, but maybe not. Bryan
