Breaking deps deliberately

[Michael Cronenworth]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Breaking deps deliberately
From: Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org>
To: Development discussions related to Fedora <fedora-devel-list at redhat.com>
Date: 05/13/2009 10:40 AM

> 
> Good point, though this one is solvable client-side.  In the current
> desktop experience you choose whether to install just security or
> everything every time.  We could make that setting default to
> persistent, so that people who choose to do only security will have
> their yum configuration changed to disable updates-all.
> 

I'm not sure why you think we need entirely separate repos for this kind 
of action. PackageKit is aware of update levels. Bug fix, security fix, 
or regular feature update. You could add functionality to PackageKit 
that allows you default the type of updates you want instead of all 
updates. Right now you can just manually uncheck the updates you do not 
want, so if they don't have a red icon next to them. In fact, I think 
the notification window you get that says "Security Updates only" would 
get you on your way.