7 Nov
2002
7 Nov
'02
19:09
On Thursday 07 November 2002 16.03, Thibaut Cousin wrote:
--force tells RPM to overwrite files and packages and *also* to ignore dependency problems. It is extremely dangerous.
Actually no. --force is a synonym for "--replacefiles --replacepkgs --oldpackage". It still takes dependencies into account, that is why you see so many people advocating "--nodeps --force". I agree that it's extremely dangerous though Anders