[techtalk] argh! (gnumeric troubles)

[Nils Philippsen]

On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Rik Hemsley wrote:

> #if Kelly Lynn Martin
> > 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.
> 
> What about --justdb ? If you want to pretend you've installed something,
> that works quite nicely.

You would have to have a package providing what is missing which is not
always the case.

Nils
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