[CentOS] Yum update conflicts perl-Math-BigInt

Filipe Brandenburger

filbranden at gmail.com
Sun Feb 1 01:13:08 UTC 2009


Hi,

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 16:36, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
> If you really need the newer version you might have to --force it.

Bad advice. This is the exactly same reason why installing from CPAN
is not recommended under CentOS.

RPM is designed to prevent you from installing something that could
risk breaking your system. Whenever you use --force you are telling
RPM to stop doing that. This is a bad idea.

And remember: If you break it, you get to keep the pieces.

HTH,
Filipe



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