On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 08:35:17AM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> Here is how yum does depsolving. It goes through and tries to satisfy
> the requests of ts.check() if it goes through more than 5 dependency
> loops with no change in the output of ts.check() then it means that
> nothing new is happening on the resolution front and we should just give
> up.
Just out of curiosity, why 5? If state n+1 (S_{n+1}) depends only on
S_{n} and nothing else, then doesn't
S_{n+1} == S_{n}
imply that
S_{m} == S_{n} for all m > n?
If that's the case,t then I would expect a single step with no change
to be enough.
-Michael
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