A record number of breakages?

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On Wednesday 17 August 2005 14:44, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 21:43 +0100, Paul wrote:
> > > 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 ...
>
> I'd vote for --shadow=SomePackageGlob, meaning "Install everything that
> doesn't depend (directly or indirectly) on SomePackage" (modulated by the
> usual --exclude=SomeJunk and ListOfStuff arguments). Methinks this would be
> generally useful, not only for futzing around with rawhide, as this is
> usually what you want (not just raw --exclude=ThisOrThat).
>
> Or else, "--install-whatever-you-can --i-know-what-im-doing
> --yes-i-do-mean-it --just-doit-damnit" flags
>
> > 	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.
>
> Nodz.
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I like the --just-do-it-dambit flag  :)