dnf replacing yum and dnf-yum

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 18:33 +0200, drago01 wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 6:00 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net
> > wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Am 07.04.2015 um 17:53 schrieb Ralf Corsepius:
> > > 
> > > On 04/07/2015 05:07 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > dnf's default behavior is like yum with --skip-broken already.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > WHAT?
> > > 
> > > --skip-broken is a band-aid to work around packaging mistakes 
> > > and bugs
> > > and NOT be the default.
> > > 
> > > IMO, this kind of behavior is not helpful and therefore should 
> > > be reverted
> > 
> > 
> > +1
> > 
> > that's unacceptable and leads in burry *real* problems resulting 
> > in sonner
> > or later security updates are broken and nobody take snotice soon 
> > enough
> 
> The bug is elsewhere though ... i.e. that is even possible to push
> updates with broken deps.
> Rawhide is a different story but everything that goes through bodhi
> (stable releases and branched) should simply refuse pushes with 
> broken
> deps.

This is easier said than done. We don't have a perfect dependency 
checker and it's not at all easy to write one. tflink and John Dulaney 
have more details if you're interested, but yes, this is not a trivial 
thing we can just wave a wand and make happen.
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