yum --skip-broken update by default?

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Thu Dec 11 20:09:03 UTC 2008



On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Steven Moix wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Last night I had an idea, why not alias "yum update" to "yum
> --skip-broken update" by default? This simple hack could prevent a lot
> of recurring support questions on the forums:
>
> 1) People who have dependency problem won't see them anymore.

b/c we need to get the dep problems reported, too.

> 2) It doesn't change anything for the rest of the people.
>

sure it does, it means that you think you're updated completely, but 
you're not.

-sv




More information about the fedora-devel-list mailing list