What about smartpm?

[Konstantin Ryabitsev]

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 12:29 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> I don't think so.  It's like this:
> 
> I want to install appA.  It has depB.
> 
> repoA and repoB both have depB.  repoA has appA.
> 
> Installing (via yum, smart, or whatever) picks up appA from repoA, and depB
> from repoB.
> 
> Now, repoB updates depB.  No reason it shouldn't.
> 
> Now, IIUC, yum gives up on this situation.  It wants to update depB, but
> appA needs the old version.
> 
> IIUC, not only does yum not update depB, but it _stops updating anything
> completely_.  Your nightly yum upgrade stops until you notice the problem
> and manually repair it.  (Correct me if I'm wrong here).

It's because this is a safer behaviour than guessing around various
errors. You think it's wonderful, but it's far more error-prone than not
doing anything "automagically" until the problem is actually fixed.
Working around brokenness is a very slippery path to far graver and more
obscure brokenness down the line.

Regards,
-- 
Konstantin Ryabitsev
McGill University WSG
Montréal, Québec