[arch-general] pacman -- force removal despite dependencies (libgl)

[Aaron Griffin]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Stephen Wilkinson <sw8511 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I have both xf86-video-vesa and nvidia-96xx installed, but I have
> issues with the proprietary drivers, so I wanted to try out vesa with
> libgl.
>
> I can remove nvidia-96xx, but trying to remove nvidia-96xx-utils flags
> lots of conflicts. I was going to use pacman -Rc but that would mean
> uninstalling (and later reinstalling) lots of packages... and I'm
> thinking there must be a quicker and more elegant way about this.
>
> I was wondering if there's a way to force removal of nvidia-96xx-utils
> and ignore the dependencies since libgl will satisfy them anyway. (I
> know in general it would not be a good idea for pacman to allow
> this...)
>
> I tried pacman -R --force but that doesn't work (--force is not a
> removal option).
>
> I thought about forcing the installing of libgl with -f instead, but I
> thought it would be neater to remove nvidia-96xx-utils first
> (otherwise I will have problems later when it comes to delete either
> package?)
>
> Any thoughts on this would be appreciated!

Try -Rd
  -d, --nodeps
     Skips all dependency checks. Normally, pacman
     will always check a package´s dependency fields
     to ensure that all dependencies are installed and
     there are no package conflicts in the system.