Package updating

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at redhat.com
Fri Dec 16 01:30:03 UTC 2005


Hi

> You can not use the report to answer the question
>"Will package foo install without error"
>You can answer the question
>"Which packages have an explict dependancy problems"
>The report details the exact dependancies breakage in the tree, it
>doesn't attempt to measure how many packages are affected by that
>breakage.. all it does it pinpoint exactly in the tree where there are
>problems.
>
I think the problem we are seeing here is the result of people here 
expecting the former while getting the latter. Would it be possible to 
modify repoquery to provide this functionality?

regards
Rahul




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