F10 Fresh Vanilla Install with Updates Has Broken NetworkManager

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Tom Lane wrote:

> Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> So the real question is: why in heck did yum install an update of NM
>>> that it knew it didn't have the dependencies for?  I surmise that the
>>> install process is using --nodeps, and that seems just plain stupid.
>
>> The install process ignores dependencies it cannot satisfy because otherwise
>> you couldn't do an upgrade without added repositories.
>
> I'm not following.  Where is the use in allowing you to do a broken
> upgrade?  ISTM that in a situation like this it *should* fail until
> you add on the needed additional repositories.
>

Anaconda may be doing things differently but yum has no facility built-in 
for ignoring deps.

-sv