Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Problem starting

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

fre 2003-01-03 klockan 13.25 skrev Georgi Georgiev:
> > rpm has a --force option that overrides dependency checks, for people
> > that know what they are doing. Unfortunately, too many users use it
> > without knowing what they are doing and what dependencies are and why
> > they are needed, and without understanding that the application will not
> > work correctly, if at all, without the specified dependencies.
> > Although I'm not saying this happened in this particular case, it sure
> > happens all too often.
> 
> Overriding dependencies is not that bad. The ones I ignore at times are of 
> the type "mutt needs a mail daemon and you don't have one" and I for example 
> have qmail installed from source.

If you override a dependency because you *know* you have the specific
required functionality installed (from source), then you obviously know
what you are doing. :)
I'm speaking of users that override dependencies because they *think*
that the dependency in the required version is installed, and override
it without checking that, and then wonder why the software isn't working
and why they get weird errors when using the software.


> However, I have *NEVER* overriden a 
> dependcy to a library and I do think it is one of the worst ideas ever.

Much agreed.


Christian