Policy or best practice on mentioning dependency issues

[Tim Lauridsen]

seth vidal wrote:
> 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
>
>   
+1

Tim
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