yum plugin suggestion or yum change?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

>
> Exactly!
>
> In case of system update, partial success is better than no success at 
> all. In most situations, this is probably not true, but here it 
> certainly is.
> Especially because partial success is actually successful updating of 
> a lot of packages, but with the update of a few packages delayed until 
> such time that their dependencies can be met.
> There should be no good reason to postpone a security update of apache 
> because of a failed dependency with gaim or whatever.
>
> --partial seems to be a good solution to me!

This probably should be written as a yum plugin for those working on 
repositories that can break like development tree.

regards
Rahul