A record number of breakages?

[Jim Cornette]

Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 21:43 +0100, Paul wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm not sure if it's me or the build box, but today must go down as the
>>day with most number of packages borked in rawhide - there are tonnes
>>relying on libpixman and libcairo and if they're excluded, there are
>>still about that additionally have to be excluded as well!
> 
> 
> 	Here's a thought - if the daily rawhide report comes with a list of
> broken dependencies, it probably wouldn't take much for it to also
> include the yum command line needed to update everything not affected by
> the broken deps. Or yum itself could have a --exclude-broken-deps ...
> 
> 	Broken deps are always going to be a fact of life with rawhide - it'd
> be nice if didn't suck up too much time for people, though.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark.
> 

I'm for something like either option. I was more for an option for yum 
to update everything where deps were rational, then output the available 
but not upgradable rpms.

Jim