apt cheating?

[Andreas Goesele <Goesele@hfph.mwn.de>]

Hi,

The apt-get manual tells us:

"APT itself does not allow broken
package dependencies to exist on a  system."

But there are cases, where one wants to have a package installed
even if some dependencies are broken. (For instance if the package is
very big and one isn't interested at all in the parts of the package
which are affected by the dependency.)

So, is there any way to cheat apt, so that it accepts some broken
dependencies - because they are hidden from it?

Any help appreciated.

Andreas Goesele