FC6 updates broken deps?

[Denis Leroy]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 15:59 +0100, Denis Leroy wrote:
> 
>> Maybe I'm mistaken. If I submit a patch that integrates --skip-broken 
>> into yum, will you accept it ? I'd be more than happy to write that patch.
> 
> It really depends on how the patch is implemented. Though I'm curious
> why integrating it is important if the plugin works well enough?

let me try to answer that.

1. because the plugin is not installed by default, much less enabled by 
default. As a new user, I would be confused by a large update failing 
because of a single broken dep. My instinctive reaction would be to look 
for an option in yum to change that behavior (assuming i even know about 
yum, rather than just using the update applet). Having to launch pirut 
and search for a plugin seems counter-intuitive to me.

2. I find that strictly relying on plugins to work around issues, change 
default behaviors and add new functionality, or more generally accepting 
contributions from the community, is a strange way of managing a 
project. At least that's the way I understand yum is managed right now, 
based on what Tom Callaway said sunday at FOSDEM. But if you tell me 
that's not the case, I'll certainly believe you.