How do I force remove a package in Arch with pacman
while other packages still depend upon it.
pacman -R perl-libwww
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: perl-app-cpanminus: requires perl-libwww>=5.828
:: perl-app-pmuninstall: requires perl-libwww
:: perl-app-sd: requires perl-libwww
:: perl-catalyst-action-rest: requires perl-libwww>=2.033
:: perl-catalyst-runtime: requires perl-libwww>=1.64
:: perl-cpan: requires perl-libwww
:: perl-cpan-mini: requires perl-libwww
:: perl-cpan-uploader: requires perl-libwww
:: perl-feed-find: requires perl-libwww
:: perl-http-body: requires perl-libwww
:: perl-http-request-ascgi: requires perl-libwww
:: perl-module-cpants-analyse: requires perl-libwww
:: perl-module-install: requires perl-libwww>=5.812
:: perl-net-trac: requires perl-libwww
:: perl-net-whois-raw: requires perl-libwww
:: perl-prophet: requires perl-libwww
:: perl-rt-client-rest: requires perl-libwww
:: perl-uri-fetch: requires perl-libwww
:: perl-www-mechanize: requires perl-libwww
:: perl-xml-atom: requires perl-libwww
:: perl-xml-feed: requires perl-libwww
basically LWP 6 split a whole bunch of packages, and I need to remove it so I can reinstall it.
apt-get --reinstall
works.