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[Paul Howarth]

On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 20:43 +0000, Douglas Furlong wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> >Which just goes to show, --nodeps and --force are measures of last
> >resort when it comes to RPM options. Dependencies are usually there for
> >a reason...
> >
> >Cheers, Paul.
> >  
> >
> The only time I have ever used --nodeps and --force was to remove what I 
> percieved as a "borked" package and then re-install it shortly afterwards...
> 
> I know there are probably many more reasons, but thought I'd list one :)

That's not too unreasonable, but I'd use:

rpm --replacepkgs --replacefiles package.rpm

for that (overwriting the existing package with a new copy); using --
force or --nodeps just feels wrong to me.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>