[indiana-discuss] pkg uninstall without deps

[Jonathan Edwards]

On Dec 10, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Shawn Walker wrote:

> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> Shawn Walker wrote:
>>> Alexander wrote:
>>>> Sometimes I need force uninstall single package.
>>>> But in osol I can't do it. May be something like "pkg uninstall
>>>> --force" (without deps packages) must be implemented?
>>> "forced" install / uninstall is not planned at this time.  For some
>>> reason a "break me" switch doesn't fill me with confidence and  
>>> joy :-)
>>
>> I could also use a switch like this, though I prefer to think of it  
>> as the
>> "I know what I'm doing more than you do" switch, even if it was an  
>> undocumented
>> "PKG_PLEASE_LET_ME_HURT_MYSELF" environment variable I had to set.
>
> The problem is that, inevitably, when you give someone a
> "PKG_PLEASE_LET_ME_HURT_MYSELF" they do, and someone else pays their
> hospital bill (joking).

the problem with not providing this functionality is that determined  
people will inevitably find a way to do this anyways (eg: rm -rf, dd,  
etc) and break other things or simply not adopt/adapt