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Arch Willingham wrote:
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<div><span class="061104423-18102007"><font color="#0000ff"
face="Arial" size="2">In my case, I guess I am "crying" (?) for two
reasons:</font></span></div>
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<li><span class="061104423-18102007"><font color="#0000ff"
face="Arial" size="2">With yumex you have to start it, wait for it to
come up, pick select, tell it it ok, wait for it to finish, tell it to
close.....lost of hand holding. On the other hand, with a yum command
line (shell script), you click one command and walk away.</font></span></li>
<li><span class="061104423-18102007"><font color="#0000ff"
face="Arial" size="2">Sometimes, you can't tell which one is the
problem with yumex. It bombs out and says there is a problem with x
dependency in y package. When you review he list, none of the updatable
packages contain anything obvious to clue you in to which package to
exclude. I had one happen that way the other night. I had to end up
opening yumex, selecting five packages, telling it to apply them. If
they ran...great...if not figure out which of those five were causing
the problem.</font></span></li>
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<div><span class="061104423-18102007"><font color="#0000ff"
face="Arial" size="2">Arch</font></span></div>
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face="Tahoma" size="2">-----Original Message-----<br>
<b>From:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:fedora-test-list-bounces@redhat.com">fedora-test-list-bounces@redhat.com</a>
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:fedora-test-list-bounces@redhat.com">mailto:fedora-test-list-bounces@redhat.com</a>]<b>On Behalf Of </b>Dan
Carruthers<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 18, 2007 7:11 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> For testers of Fedora Core development releases<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Policy or best practice on mentioning
dependency issues<br>
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seth vidal wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 17:29 +0300, cornel panceac wrote:
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<pre wrap="">hmm, what if instead of exiting, yum would ask: "do you wanna continue
with the broken deps packages excluded?" or similar?
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what would you want yum to do if you ran it with -y?
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I see all these people crying about broken deps packages in yum, so why
not run yumex than when you have a broken dep just uncheck that package
and go ahead with the install.<br>
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Seems that when I have a dependency error a message box pops up and I
take the time to read it to determine the error than just correct it
and rerun.<br>
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