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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