yum broken dep default behaviour

[seth vidal]

> i didnt yet file any report on the issue because i wanted to discuss
> it first. maybe its intended to work like that. i will give you an
> example:
> 
> 1. first we explicitly remove some package
> rpm -e --nodeps gnome-desktop
> 
> 2. we use yum update
> yum update
> 
> 3. we watch the broken dep chain to be ignored.


wait - did the updates that were applied have anything to do with the
dep you broke? If so - please file a bug, I'd like to see the debug
information.
If not then that is exactly correct behavior. Just b/c you have a broken
dep somewhere else doesn't mean you can't make these packages over here
work.

-sv