On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 07:13:02PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > Fine then, don't use it. It'll pull the deps before it install the > modules and unloads them and re-loads them.
I just didn't realize this crap was so brittle. So many ways to fix brokenness when I just don't know why dpkg even bothers starting it knows it can't finish. Sure you can say it's for experts but half-installing something you know the dependencies aren't there should be a Forced option, not the default. The solutioun as everybody has said and how I started this thread is just don't trust dpkg anymore than you trust rpm. apt-get direct packages or temporary apt repositories for me
