FC6 updates broken deps?

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Thu Feb 22 20:17:06 UTC 2007


On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 08:40:36PM +0100, Denis Leroy wrote:
> >>yum needs to be fixed, NOW. At this moment the update process puts 
> >>everyone at risk.
> >Send patches.
> Well the yum plugins already exist. Certainly a good start would be to 
> gather the myriad of yum plugins and include them in the main yum 
> distribution, so at least these things get shipped together (how is an 
> end-user supposed to learn about yum-skip-broken ?).

I don't think lumping them into the yum rpm is a good approach from a system
maintenance perspective. 

How is an end-user supposed to learn about any functionality of any package?

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