While we're talking about RPM dependencies ...

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:39:16 +0100
"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 05:18:02PM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > I think it should be possible to make repos that are always
> > > self-consistent even when mirrors only partially mirror or delay
> > > content.  I have in mind a great proof of this, but this email is
> > > too small to contain it.
> > 
> > Even across repositories? (RPM Fusion…)
> 
> Hmm, that is trickier ...  The particular problem with RPM Fusion is
> that no coordination is possible, or even legally permitted.
> 

And there are a billion local, private repos like this.

You cannot expect that fedora will EVER be able to calculate against
all of them. And therefore yum has to be able to handle depresolution
failure.

-sv