Strange package dependency problem

Richard Ayer III rwa1 at cec.wustl.edu
Sun Mar 21 06:21:21 UTC 2004


I agree with you that in general erring on the side of caution is good. So
maybe yum would say something like "Some of the requested packages have
unresolved deps; should the update be halted?" Then with the -y flag, your
system remains unchanged; then if you don't use that flag you can respond
"no" to the above question and update whatever packages have resolved deps.
As an aside, I've never used the -y flag; are there often a lot of questions
to answer, hence the flag exists? I ask because I've never seen more than
the one question about downloading/updating packages to resolve deps.

Richard Ayer III






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