On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
Alan Evans wrote:
>
> How do you do that?
>
> I have a small number of 32-bit packages on my desktop. If I try to
> remove, for example, glibc.i686, then it tries to take
> basesystem.noarch with it as a dependency!
>
rpm -e glibc.i686 --nodeps
(use with care...)
Well, sure, but that leaves the dependency tree deliberately broken.
Who knows what silly problems that will cause with some far-future yum
invocation or upgrade?
I was rather thinking that he had done it more legitimately.