Policy or best practice on mentioning dependency issues

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 10:46 +0200, Florian Festi wrote:
> 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.

there are several thousand ways that I hate "removing already installed
pkgs" as an automatic solution to a depsolving problem. That kind of
thinking for me does not fill me with confidence as I've watched that
behavior screw up far too often.

-sv