yum --skip-broken update by default?

[John Ellson]

Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>>> "JE" == John Ellson <john.ellson at comcast.net> writes:
>>>>>>             
>
> JE> Why?  Thats a dumb way to select features.  Make them not-conflict
> JE> and provide some kind of configuration option.
>
> Because there have been certain difficulties in getting these packages
> to live with each other, requiring various finessing which as I
> understand things has been progressing.
>
> I mean, come on, two syslog daemons?  Each needing to own (and do
> things like provide log rotation for) the same files?  Alternatives
> isn't going to handle that, you know.  And as I understand it, there
> are actually three syslog daemons people might want to use, all with
> the same issues.  You make it sound as if these things have absolutely
> trivial solutions, and the only reason for making them conflict is to
> annoy you.  Do you even allow for the possibility that there's an
> actual difficult issue here?
>
>  - J<
>
>   
Sure I allow that. But we're off track.   My primary complaint is that 
this dependency conflict
isn't listed in the daily yum updates dependency list and that yum 
doesn't deal with it automatically.



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John Ellson