Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

Bob Marcan bob.marcan at gmail.com
Tue Jun 10 10:23:35 UTC 2014


On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 17:28:07 -0500
Justin Brown <justin.brown at fandingo.org> wrote:

> I've been using DNF for a year or so primarily. The one gripe that I
> have is that DNF tends to avoid giving useful information with broken
> packages. A required package version isn't available? Yum will print
> out tons of information on which package failed, what version is
> installed, and what version is available through yum. On the other
> hand, DNF just gives up without any useful output. Absolutely no
> information that there was a package conflict, much less what the
> details are.  With Fedora embracing community repositories through
> COPR, the default packaging tool absolutely needs to present this
> information to users.
> 
If package conflicts with the local package, without this info, will never be solved.
Update of one of the conflicting package can be more important then the
other.

BR, Bob



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