On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Kelly Lynn Martin wrote:
> 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.
That's a symptom of poor packaging :-), honest: apache (or zope or
roxen) should provide 'webserver', then windowmanagers 'windowmanager' and
so on. For things you have installed w/o RPM, you can put your provides in
/etc/rpmrc.
Nils
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