How to override non satisfied dependencies

[Mary Ellen Foster]

On 12/12/05, Roger Grosswiler <roger at gwch.net> wrote:
> Did anybody get out, which apps to exclude from update, so the
> dependencies get satisfied?

I ended up uninstalling eclipse, openoffice.org, ant, and all of their
dependencies, and then the rawhide update worked for me. NB: a bunch
of packages fail the uninstall because of
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=158577 , so after
the "yum remove" you have to do "rpm -ev --noscripts" on all of the
packages that depend on rebuild-gcj-db (you can pick them out of the
yum output fairly easily).

Other package sets may require other tweaks, of course, but that made
it possible for me to install gcc 4.1 and hence build kernel against
the 1750 kernel.

MEF

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