package conflicts in rawhide

[John5342]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 02:53, Rob Healey <robhealey1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I like how yum shell works, what was its intended purpose?

I would imagine to perform several actions at once such as removing,
installing and updating things all in one go. Also consider the case
where two conflicting packages provide the same functionality that
several installed packages rely on. If you wanted to switch without
yum shell you would first have to uninstall the one package which
would remove all packages that depend on it and then reinstall all of
those packages along with the alternative package. With yum shell you
could remove the one package and install the other in one transaction
removing the need for removing and reinstalling all the dependent
packages. That's the kind of thing i use it for anyway.

> What does DTRT mean?

Do The Right Thing

-- 
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary
and those who don't...