monstrous failure of "yum update" on fedora 11 alpha

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 13:35 -0600, Jerry Amundson wrote:

> I would *really*, *really* like to see yum just do that automagically!
> Anyone know if that's been bz'd?
> I searched, but am not patient enough right now for my 900+ bug "yum"
> search, nor to fine tune it.

I discussed it with Jesse at the -qa meeting this morning.

Apparently the developers' take on it is that it a) adds complexity for
little benefit (we don't really break rpm in a non-backwards-compatible
way very often at all) and, for most releases, it would be pretty much a
no-op, because Python usually gets bumped between releases, and when
Python is updated, updating rpm brings in most of the rest of the distro
as dependencies via the Python connection.

Personally I'd like the feature (I'm used to it from MDV, which does
this) but I also see the arguments against.
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