On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 13:10, Greg Kurtzer wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 08:35:17AM -0500, seth vidal told me: > > 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. > > > > The reason is stated above, you were trying to update mozilla but it > > would leave you with a broken epiphany, so it can't update. > > This may have been asked before, but why have yum exit rather then offer to > fix (ie. removing epiphany)? I see how this can be dangerous for 'update' but > why not 'upgrade'? I'm not removing packages during an update or an upgrade, ever, really. it's not acceptable behavior imo, especially in the case of -y being set. -sv
