Yum and Filed Dependencies

[THUFIR HAWAT]

On 5/12/05, Richard Crawford <rscrawford at mossroot.com> wrote:
> Once thing you can really hate about Yum: suppose you're running 
> yum -y update to update a whole bunch of files, like, say two dozen 
> (assume a fresh install).  If just ONE of those files has missing 
> dependencies, then the entire Yum process bombs, and NONE of 
> the files install.
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how does yum compare to portage in this regard?

-Thufir