[techtalk] argh! (gnumeric troubles)

[Kelly Lynn Martin]

On Tue, 4 Apr 2000 11:33:49 -0400 (EDT), Beverly Guillermo <mezanin at home.com> said:

>What you can do is install the files using the --nodeps option for
>rpm.  But then you could probably break some sort of important
>dependency...  it's why I dislike the rpm system entirely sometimes
>and the documentation that doesn't tell you what you "really" need
>for the tarballs.

My main gripe with rpm is that it's virtually impossible to convince
rpm that you've installed an equivalent by other means.  You can
--nodeps, but that defeats the entire point of dependency testing.

Kelly