On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 19:25 -0500, William Ballard wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 07:13:02PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > Fine then, don't use it. It'll pull the deps before it install the > > modules and unloads them and re-loads them. > > I just didn't realize this crap was so brittle. > > So many ways to fix brokenness when I just don't know why dpkg even > bothers starting it knows it can't finish. Sure you can say it's > for experts but half-installing something you know the dependencies > aren't there should be a Forced option, not the default. > > The solutioun as everybody has said and how I started this thread > is just don't trust dpkg anymore than you trust rpm. > > apt-get direct packages or temporary apt repositories for me Well, at least we all have learned from your "mistake" Too bad it happened. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net The technology that is Stronger, better, faster: Linux
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