A record number of breakages?

[Jeff Spaleta]

On 8/18/05, Michael Wiktowy <mwiktowy at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> I think that the conclusion boiled down to yum being a dependancy
> *solver* not a dependancy *ignorer* and for the default operation to do
> all of what the invoker intended or nothing at all (other than
> outputting informative errors pointing to the problem ... something that
> has imporved a great deal since then) so that they can be used sanely
> and predictably in automated scripts.
> I would like this functionality too but it does make a degree of sense
> to do it outside of yum.

yum now has a plugin structure, so "outside of yum" might mean a yum
plugin package now instead of a totally seperate script. I've not
found the time to dig into the plugin mechanism at all.

-jef