Policy or best practice on mentioning dependency issues

[cornel panceac]

hmm, what if instead of exiting, yum would ask: "do you wanna continue with
the broken deps packages excluded?" or similar?

2007/10/18, Arch Willingham <arch at tuparks.com>:
>
> I fire off yum update almost every morning when I get in. With the test
> packages, every once in a while there are dependency issues (the one from
> this morning is shown below). I normally just ignore them and re-rum yum
> update with an exclusion about the offending package. Rarely do 24 hours go
> by before y'all fix it.
>
> With that said, in light of this being a test release, what is the
> recommended way of dealing with the dependency errors: post them on this
> list, post a bug or keep "your yapper shut, we know it's broken, we are
> fixing it? Be patient!!!".
>
> Arch
>
> # yum update --exclude='faad2*' --exclude='gstreamer-plugins-ugly*'
> Excluding Packages in global exclude list
> Finished
> Setting up Update Process
> Resolving Dependencies
> 6 0:1.0-3.fc8 set to be updated
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: perl(MQClient::MQSeries) is needed by package
> perl-SOAP-Lite
> Error: Missing Dependency: perl(MQSeries) is needed by package
> perl-SOAP-Lite
> Error: Missing Dependency: perl(MQSeries::Queue) is needed by package
> perl-SOAP-Lite
> Error: Missing Dependency: perl(MQSeries::Message) is needed by package
> perl-SOAP-Lite
> Error: Missing Dependency: perl(MQSeries::QueueManager) is needed by
> package perl-SOAP-Lite
>
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