build (and I guess an introduction)

[John Jasen]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Chuck Wolber wrote:

> 
> 
> > a nodeps thing?
> > 
> > running rpm with rpm --nodeps is almost ALWAYS a bad idea.
> 
> *ALWAYS*??

He said "almost ALWAYS" -- it is very different than "ALWAYS". Maybe it 
should be as I generally tell people "--force and --nodeps are for people 
who really know what they're doing. If you think you need them, most likey 
you do not know what you're doing. :)"

I use the big no-nos --nodeps and --force on occasion, depending 
on the circumstances involved. (... does that mean I don't know what I'm 
doing?)

Most of the time, I've walked away unscathed.

A few times, on the boxes I used to screw around with various projects, 
I've broken things into many many interesting pieces that just didn't 
want to work right afterwards. X, KDE, mozilla, kernel are a few that come 
to mind. :)

That said, I'm interested in helping out with continued support, just 
need to get an OK from work. My critical area is RH7.3. I'm also officially 
interested in RH9, and unofficially interested in RH6.2. 

I have a little 'leverage' with my local hardware vendor, who is also very 
interested in continued support of 7.3 and 9, so if there are any components 
needed by the project, I can ask. I might also get them to set a mirror up 
somewhere. Maybe. :)

I have some experience in dealing with RPM spec files, adding in patches, 
and rebuilding, which pending permission, I'd be happy to trade.

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