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[Jesse Keating]

On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 15:15 +0200, Erwin Rol wrote:
> 
> They can just as easy screw up their machine with rpm --nodeps or rpm
> --force, or even worse by trying to use rm to get rid of collisions,
> so
> that seems like a lame excuse to not implement it. 

Just because rpm lets you shoot yourself in the foot doesn't mean Yum
has to as well.  There are ways around this situation without the use of
--force or --nodeps.  Yum is a convenience tool, and as a convenience it
prevents you from ruining your system.  This is a Good Thing.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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