[475] in RedHat Linux List
Re: bugs (?), suggestions, questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Hockin)
Tue Oct 22 20:09:51 1996
From: Tim Hockin <thockin@eagle.ais.net>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 19:07:53 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.961023014119.lfarkas@u-szeged.hu> from "Levente Farkas" at Oct 23, 96 00:20:07 am
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> 1. I'm the root, this mean I'm the God on the machine and I can do
> everything, so if I wanna uninstall something than I can't be
> forbiden to do it (ok. it would be useful to pop up a few confirm
> window on X or question on terminal). If it break dependecies than
> I hold the responsibility.
This already is. try adding --force.
> 2. If I install/upgrade a package, it would be nice to check EVERY
> installed package to prevent from overwriting file which belong to
> an already installed package (in case of upgrade check after uninstall).
rpm already does this
> 3. It would be nice if rpm can find the already installed package even if
> it is put into another group (like ghostscript-4) by the name (it can
> cause the same error then the above (2).
I'm not sure I follow. Rpm an find any package regardless of group, by
its name.
> 4a.It is not really rpm think, but would be nice if in glint I can see
> the ungrouped version of packages (I mean something like: rpm -qa | sort)
> It can be very useful sometime.
find a contrib of xrpm - very nice
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