On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 10:30, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 02:37:34PM +0000, Jose Celestino wrote:
> > Ok. That was it, all of this stuff was moved from the XFree86-libs
> > package to the XFree86-libs-data. I did a rpm -F --nodeps * so I failed
> > to install this last one :/
> 
> 
> And this is the primary reason why people should *never* use --nodeps
> without finding out why the dependencies were required in the first
> place.  

I agree, and I'll add: chastise whoever gives you the advise to use
--nodeps unless they give you a very clear explanation of why it's
appropriate <em>in that specific instance</em>.




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