Re: [techtalk] argh! (gnumeric troubles)

[Rik Hemsley]

#if Kelly Lynn Martin
> On Tue, 4 Apr 2000 11:33:49 -0400 (EDT), Beverly Guillermo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> >What you can do is install the files using the --nodeps option for
> >rpm.  But then you could probably break some sort of important
> >dependency...  it's why I dislike the rpm system entirely sometimes
> >and the documentation that doesn't tell you what you "really" need
> >for the tarballs.
> 
> My main gripe with rpm is that it's virtually impossible to convince
> rpm that you've installed an equivalent by other means.  You can
> --nodeps, but that defeats the entire point of dependency testing.

What about --justdb ? If you want to pretend you've installed something,
that works quite nicely.

Rik


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