"--nodeps" installed package breaks apt-get & synaptic

[Jonathan Rawle]

Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr Nordic/Baltic - Java System Software - Sun 
Microsystems wrote:

> The problem is that apt-get and Synaptic both hiccup on this package and
> refuse to install any updates until the offending package has been
> removed. Is there a way to flag this package as "really OK" and have
> apt-get/synaptic to stop being offended by it?

I seem to remember, from a discussion about the merits of yum vs apt, that
apt is particularly fussy about this, but that yum doesn't see it as a
problem. So using yum would be one way around the problem, at least!

Jonathan