Strange package dependency problem

[Iain Rae]

William Hooper wrote:

>Swamper said:
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>>Then what is the point of this running daily?
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>>cat /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron
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>I wouldn't let a cron job update my system from a stable tree, let alone
>from development.  How do you know what update broke your system?
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If you're dealing with large numbers of systems then automagic updates 
(from a stable) are a necessity, however you have to back them up with 
reporting/monitoring systems. I wouldn't expect yum to do all that, it's 
too site specific. Having yum mail root a summary might be useful but 
it's fairly trivial to add that into the above cron job.

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>>Yum will be broke unless I edit that file and tell it to exclude
>>gdm.
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>Yum is working as designed.  And, if you had spent the time working on
>your system instead of bitching you would have gdm installed by now.
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>>Why should I need to run yum manually now and tell it to
>>skip that file?  Why can't it read my mind?
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>Do you really want me to reply to this?
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but it is reading his mind, it's then just going "this is broken, why 
should I work out what's wrong with this, he's the sysadmin, he gets 
paid to do things like that, he can sort it out".