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No. A main goal of yum is to put an automatic dependency solver on top of rpm - breaking dependency chains by forcing a package install (or removal) while ignoring dependencies makes it kinda pointless.
The RPM for Cassandra has a dependency on Python 2.7 which I don't have on the system (CERN Scientific Linux - Red Hat version). However Cassandra doesn't need Python2.7 for itself, just for the database shell, which is usually run on another machine (where I'll have 2.7). That's really annoying.
yum
is to put an automatic dependency solver on top ofrpm
- breaking dependency chains by forcing a package install (or removal) while ignoring dependencies makes it kinda pointless.