Thank you, unknown genius!

[Anton Solovyev]

Todd Denniston wrote:

> Actually an unfortunate thing is that if you do go through and select 
> EVERYTHING by hand and install it, I know from experience, you will get 
> conflicting packages[1] installed and the rpm's are not setup to 
> indicate conflicts.
> specifically I know about:
> A) rsyslog & syslog-ng
> B) ccid|ifd-egate & ctapi-cyberjack-pcsc
> 
> It would be useful to have an "Everything that does not conflict" button 
> though.
> 
> [1] conflicting in as much as, you get nothing in /var/log/messages with 
> both syslog packages, and the ifd-cyberjack.bundle from 
> ctapi-cyberjack-pcsc causes pcscd to peg at 100% CPU and fail to do 
> ANYthing useful, if a reader for any of the other bundles is plugged in.

Well, that's not unexpected. I am guessing the whole point of the change was to 
make it possible to stick in any number of possibly incompatible packages and 
not have to answer for an unusable install. All that under excuse of "security".

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Anton Solovyev