esc and rhgb

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 07 December 2008, Globe Trotter wrote:
>--- On Sun, 12/7/08, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
>> From: Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: esc and rhgb
>> To: itsme_410 at yahoo.com, "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice
>> for using Fedora." <fedora-list at redhat.com> Date: Sunday, December 7,
>> 2008, 3:59 AM
>>
>> On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 13:20 -0800, Globe Trotter wrote:
>> > Similar with some of the graphical messages that come
>>
>> out of
>>
>> > PackageKit: this morning, it said "resolving
>>
>> dependencies" and got
>>
>> > stuck with an error "Could not resolve
>>
>> dependencies". I prefer yum
>>
>> > anyday.
>>
>> PackageKit uses yum to do the depsolve and run the
>> transaction. If it
>> doesn't work in PackageKit, it won't work in yum,
>> either.
>
>But my point was that the message is not terribly informative: out of 62
> packages, which one is it whose dependencies could not be resolved?
>
>T

I'll second that thought T, the presently output information is woefully 
inadequate to allow one to make judgemental choices.  To either have to 
cancel it, or accept that removing a single package with broken dependencies 
will then remove kde from ones system totally is un-acceptable.  So we hit 
cancel and leave the garbage on the floor for the rest of the system to 
stumble over.  That, to borrow a phrase, is a hell of a way to run a train.

-- 
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