yum broken dep default behaviour

[John Summerfied]

Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 19:23 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
>>Hi
>>
>>
>>>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.
>>> 
>>>
>>
>>I think what Rudolf Kastl is looking for is a equivalent to apt-get -f 
>>install.
> 
> 
> Having an *intelligent* --fix-broken type of operation somewhere in
> yum/yum-utils would be indeed nice. Apt's -f mode occasionally decides
> to remove half the system because that one totally irrelevant package
> has broken dependencies :-/ 

Sometimes, that's a good path to fixing the system:-) Unless you're 
downloading through a modem, in which case I've preferred the broken system.

I've had apt-get wanting to remove all of kde. Doing that, then 
installing kde can get your kde fixed: I had a right mess in woody 
because it was so old, and I'd used apt-get.org to find newer almost 
everything, or so it seemed.

> 
> Maybe package-cleanup --problems could have an additional option of
> suggesting fixes to the problems or something.

suggesting fixes is good. Offering to fix them (as apt-get does) would 
be better, especially if it can find alternatives (eg upgrade to newer, 
downgrade to older, reinstate former state).

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Cheers
John

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