so if "x depends on y and z" and i want x but y could not be downloaded and i install them manually by grabbing CVS/source but still i can not got "x" because prt-get will always try to download "y" and "z" 1st as dependencies, even though i have installed them manually. Well, if you start doing that you're not running a real CRUX system anymore, and I'm very positive that this will turn into a major headache as time goes by. Of course, it's your decision to do that and I won't
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 18:00:34 +0000, arnuld wrote: [...] try to talk you out of it, however I count on you to NOT post problems resulting from this on this list, for obvious reasons. That said, there's an easy way to make prt-get ignore dependencies, and it's documented in prt-get's help, the man page, and the user manual. HAND, Johannes -- Johannes Winkelmann mailto:jw@smts.ch Zurich, Switzerland http://jw.smts.ch