[MPlayer-users] Mplayer on Mandrake

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 15 June 2003, gabucino at mplayerhq.hu wrote:
> Dominik Mierzejewski wrote:
> > Never ever advise a newbie to use --nodeps.
> Just for the record, when I was a newbie, and had RedHat, I always used
> --nodeps --force for rpm, so it would stop the damned whining.

Then either you broke your system or you weren't a newbie. I've seen many
cases of newbies coming back whining that their system broke after being
advised to use --nodeps on some usenet newsgroups.

> Not everybody wants to be controlled by a computer.

You weren't controlled by a machine, only by packager's whims. A machine
cannot control you. It only does what it's told to do.

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