[vox-tech] resolving dependencies with XFree86-4.3.0-3

[Ricardo Anguiano]

"Micah J. Cowan" <micah@cowan.name> writes:

> On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 01:50:04PM -0700, Troy Arnold wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 12:58:59PM -0700, Charles Polisher wrote:
> > > 
> > > Use the force. Literally. RPM's --force option will get you there.
> > > Xft is an adapter so X can use xft fonts.
> > 
> > Uhh, that's how you get into RPM dependency hell.  Don't --force it
> > unless you know exactly why you are doing it and why it will work.
> > Don't do it out of desperation...
> 
> For my part, I (currently a RedHat user) avoid RPMs like the plague -
> I install from source whenever possible, at the moment. So when I *am*
> forced to use RPMs (either because the product is binary-only or the
> source tree has major flaws), I nearly always have to use --force,
> because it probably depends on libraries which I have installed, but
> RPM doesn't know about. And I hate source RPMs too.

Ditto.  If the --force'd rpm doesn't work for you, just uninstall it.
No harm there.

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