Re: Problems with equivs
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Manoj Srivastava, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
>Darren> Now, I don't want to install mbr since I want lilo to manage
>Darren> my boot-records. I have no reason to use another bm.
>
> Huh? mbr and LILO coexist on a system. There is no need to
> stop using LILO if you use mbr (I have both). In fact, from the long
> descriion of mbr:
Wherever did you get the idea that I wanted to get rid of lilo? I think
lilo does fine with its own boot record and doesn't need another package
to complicate matters. The simpler the boot process (until the kernel
comes up) the better.
> Those packages are not indentical (in fact, it has been
> demontrated that having the wrong one can hose some compiles). The
> people putting together the libc and kernel packages are not exactly
> all idiots, you know. The dependency has a reason.
I never said that anyone was an idiot. They just might have a different
setup than I do. I've gone back to kernel-headers 2.0.32. Could you
give me an example of where 2.0.33 causes problems?
>Darren> So, how do I use equivs to convince apt-get update that things
>Darren> really are fine...
>
> In cases like this it genrally helps to be correct before
> trying to convince other entities.
Last time I checked, apt-get wasn't an entity. I think software should
always allow for sys-admins/programmers/users to override their
decisions. This is why rm has a '-f' flag. If I think I know what I'm
doing, I should be given enough rope to hang myself, if I ask
correctly. Note that in no way am I asking that this be the default
behaviour or that it's even documented. I'm just saying it should be
doable. "Hard things should be possible and easy things should be
easy."
Darren
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