some closure on the xorg updates issue

Rahul sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Aug 11 15:06:16 UTC 2006


Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> Rahul wrote:
>>
>> I meant the latter.
>>
> Thanks ;-)
> 
> It's too bad yum isn't able to also remove packages from the 
> updates-to-be-applied list once it appears dependencies concerning such 
> a package are unresolvable.
> 
> Wouldn't you agree such feature in yum may solve the issue at hand here?
> 

No. It would be a bad feature to ignore unresolvable updates in general 
since they might very well be critical security features. So the users 
need to be aware of conflicts and make the choices manually if they want 
to ignore any updates. Exposing a method to do so in tools like Pup 
would be a good idea however and there are already feature requests to 
do the same.

Rahul




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