yum - lack of features

[William Hooper]

John Summerfied wrote:
> Matthew Miller wrote:
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>>> 2) Can't force a package to install if there are some minor
>>> dependencies
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>> A.k.a "doesn't let you break your system". :)
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> For some packages, some dependencies don't matter for some uses. An
> imaginary example, Mozilla could 'require shockwave-player-plugin,' but if
> it's not present it will happily work and not provide the ability to play
> shockwave.

Which (from my experience with Ubuntu) leads to trying to figure out why
certain features of a progam don't work, even though the package
management tools say everything is OK.

-- 
William Hooper