[lug] Debian is better?

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 02:14:23AM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote:
>I just want to know why you can --force an install but not an 
>UN-install... with RPM.  That's super-duper-lame.

Well, "--force" is equivalent to "--replacepkgs --replacefiles
--oldpackage".  How do you expect those to be relavent to removing a
package?

The functionality you are probably looking for when deleting packages is
"--nodeps", not "--force".  If it is saying that you can't delete a
package because of dependencies, you want "--nodeps".

>An example, say I've compiled my own version of Apache someplace on the 
>filesystem and would like to remove the httpd package... without 
>removing all the OTHER things that depend on having Apache around.  With 
>other package tools they give me the option to shoot myself in the foot 
>if I want to... RPM refuses to allow it.

--nodeps will definitely allow this.

Sean
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