Strange package dependency problem

[Swamper]

William Hooper wrote:
> Swamper said:
> > Then what is the point of this running daily?
> 
> 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?

Why then is yum installed to run daily in the default setup for
FC2 test 1?  Were we supposed to test that configuration or
immediately disable it?  Will yum be part of the next release of
Fedora?  Did Seth cause his program to be added to the daily
cron run or was this a decision made by the project?
 
> > Yum will be broke unless I edit that file and tell it to exclude
> > gdm.
> 
> 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.

Are you bitching about my bitching?  I must be getting better.
 
> > Why should I need to run yum manually now and tell it to
> > skip that file?  Why can't it read my mind?
> 
> Do you really want me to reply to this?
> 
> A bigger question would be what happens when it doesn't read your mind and
> breaks your system?

Did you really think I was serious about a program reading my
mind?  How would updating packages that don't have dependency
issues break my system?  I can understand yum not updating a
package because it thinks there is a problem but, again, why
abort the whole process because one package has a problem when
there are several others waiting that will update just fine?
 
> > Personally, IDGARA
> > what status it returns.
> 
> That's the difference between you and me.

Yep.  You want status reports.  I want results.