On 3/16/07, Matt Hyclak <hyclak at math.ohiou.edu> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 01:11:15PM +0100, Ralph Angenendt enlightened us: > > Leonardo Pinheiro wrote: > > > I've started posting it (not finished), and there is indeed a link > > > for it in the HowTos ([2]http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos ). I > > > hope by now the JavaOnCentOS may be used at least by experienced > > > users. Suggestions are welcome. > > > > Damn. Why the crosspost to centos-devel? This is a docs-issue and should > > be kept on this list. > > > > The page in question is <http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/JavaOnCentOS>. So > > everyone look at that and write your review :) I didn't see this message from Ralph. > 2. (Sun JDK 1.4.2) Should we be recommending anyone ever use --nodeps? I can > just see it now: "Well, it said I could use --nodeps on this Java thing, so > I figured I could use --nodeps on this FC7 glibc package for my CentOS 2.1 > box..." > > At the very least, explain why this is happening in this case and why > --nodeps should not be used in any other situation. I suspect there are others packages that provide those not-resolved (or circular) dependencies, so that --nodeps should not be used. I'll check.