[Yum] overly cautious free space checking?

[Hans-Peter Jansen]

Am Freitag, 28. Oktober 2005 11:30 schrieb Panu Matilainen:
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 28. Oktober 2005 08:24 schrieb Konstantin Ryabitsev:
> >> On Thu, 2005-27-10 at 23:14 -0700, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> >>> I've been actually thinking of making a "cli-extras" plugin which
> >>> adds pretty much everything-you-can-think-of cli-option to yum
> >>> for us cli-junkies :) Just haven't gotten around to do it.
> >>
> >> Make sure it includes "--force".
> >
> > Hey icon, how much use is that without --nodeps?
>
> --force and --nodeps have actually little in common, other than both
> being in "generally you shouldn't do that" category. For example a
> perfectly valid use for --force is reinstalling a package which
> requires overwriting the package contents, which in turn has nothing
> to do with --nodeps. If you need both --nodeps and --force
> simultaneously you're really doing something you shouldn't :)

Hi Panu,

I admit, that phrase was misworded, sorry, it was rather meant as a 
completeness issue, i.e.: 

if you have one way to shoot yourself into one foot, you're probably 
missing the other method for perforating the other one in a different 
way ;-)

Have a nice day,
Pete