Strange package dependency problem

[seth vidal]

> I'm sure that if you came up with some good quality patches that Seth
> would look at them, but from where I'm sitting it is a waste of precious
> developer time.
> If you don't you think volunteer time is more precious than "developer" time
> think about doing without it.

I'm going to let you in on a little secret.

I'm a developer and I'm a volunteer. I don't get paid to work on yum and
I don't work for red hat. So where does this fit in with my time, eh?

let me ask something I've asked before.

if someone asks to do:

yum update foo bar baz

all of the packages have updates, but bar and baz need other deps
updated to update, should yum just update foo and continue merrily?

It seems like a failure condition to me:
'update foo, bar and baz'
foo bar and baz can't be updated, therefore I should error and tell them
why.

If the user would just like foo to be updated then they can ask for it.


-sv