Bug#548661: dpkg: Override package dependencies
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Clearly, ignoring such constraints is risky business (not like ignoring
> "recommends" constraints), so you'd want to force the user to think hard
> before doing so, and you'd only let her ignore specific constraints,
> you might ask for confirmation before adding such an ignore-constraint
> to the list of ignored constraints, and you might even query the user
> every once in a while to make sure she still wants to keep those
> ignore-constraints.
Or simply not implement your request because we will never be happy to
have misleading bug reports because the user has overriden a dependency
that he shouldn't have. And we already have --force-depends for temporary
workarounds.
Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog
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