Ignore RPM Dependencies

Marc Deop damnshock at gmail.com
Fri Mar 11 11:03:05 UTC 2011


On Thursday 10 March 2011 21:56:37 Tim Mooney wrote:
> There are things you can do to "clue it in" after the fact, but they're
> really just kludges.  What you really, really want to do on RPM-based
> systems is install and manage all software via RPM.  This can get to
> be a bit of a pain, especially for things like esoteric perl modules
> that have a million dependencies that would be easy to just install via
> "cpan" but require a lot of separate RPMs[1] if you package everything,
> but ultimately it's the right way to manage RPM-based systems.

That actually works for *any* system (aka package manager). It will save you a *lot* of trouble in the long term.

Regards


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