Policy or best practice on mentioning dependency issues

[Dan Carruthers]

Arch Willingham wrote:
> In my case, I guess I am "crying" (?) for two reasons:
>  
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>    1. With yumex you have to start it, wait for it to come up, pick
>       select, tell it it ok, wait for it to finish, tell it to
>       close.....lost of hand holding. On the other hand, with a yum
>       command line (shell script), you click one command and walk away.
>    2. Sometimes, you can't tell which one is the problem with yumex.
>       It bombs out and says there is a problem with x dependency in y
>       package. When you review he list, none of the updatable packages
>       contain anything obvious to clue you in to which package to
>       exclude. I had one happen that way the other night. I had to end
>       up opening yumex, selecting five packages, telling it to apply
>       them. If they ran...great...if not figure out which of those
>       five were causing the problem.
>
> Arch
>  
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     *From:* fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com
>     [mailto:fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com]*On Behalf Of *Dan
>     Carruthers
>     *Sent:* Thursday, October 18, 2007 7:11 PM
>     *To:* For testers of Fedora Core development releases
>     *Subject:* Re: Policy or best practice on mentioning dependency issues
>
>     seth vidal wrote:
>>     On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 17:29 +0300, cornel panceac wrote:
>>       
>>>     hmm, what if instead of exiting, yum would ask: "do you wanna continue
>>>     with the broken deps packages excluded?" or similar?
>>>         
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>>     what would you want yum to do if you ran it with -y?
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>>     -sv
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>     I see all these people crying about broken deps packages in yum,
>     so why not run yumex than when you have a broken dep just uncheck
>     that package and go ahead with the install.
>
Seems that when I have a dependency error a message box pops up and I 
take the time to read it to determine the error than just correct it and 
rerun.
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