I've been playing around with apt for rpm, and finally starting to feel like civilized package management just might be possible under Red Hat. However, I need to be able to circumvent some dependencies. As things are now, there are some dubious dependencies that are causing apt-get to always fail, i.e., I get:
# apt-get --simulate install mysql
Reading Package Lists... Done
Collecting File Provides... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
mplayer: Depends: lirc but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
In my case, transcode requires mplayer requires lirc, but the rpm-distributed lirc doesn't work properly (at least this was true when I last checked). I can install mplayer and lirc from source, but have had problems with transcode, so the rpm was a very nice thing. In any case, I can't tell if there's a way to tell apt, "No, don't worry about lirc, *I* know all will be well, so listen to me and do my bidding." I've read all of the apt documentation I can find, and there doesn't seem to be any way to do this. Is there a solution to this problem other than "rpm -e apt"?
Thanks, Matt
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