Policy or best practice on mentioning dependency issues

Florian Festi ffesti at redhat.com
Mon Oct 22 08:46:10 UTC 2007


cornel panceac wrote:
> hmm, what if instead of exiting, yum would ask: "do you wanna continue with
> the broken deps packages excluded?" or similar?

This is on my wish list and my medium term todo list. Things are a bit more 
complicated than just "excluding the pkgs with problems" as these packages 
may not actually cause the problems and there might be other pkgs that need 
to be removed, too. So we need to modify the depsolver to fix the problems 
by removing previously included pkgs. For dist upgrades it might even be 
necessary to remove already installed pkgs. This all has to be done with 
care or you end up with a system with some of the essential pkgs (kernel, 
glibc, yum, Python, ...) missing or in an endless loop.

I would love to see that implemented for F9 but I can't make any promises.

Florian




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