Panu Matilainen wrote: >>Of all the depsolvers out there apt is the one with most potential of >>screwing up your system royally if you happen to have some unresolved >>dependencies on your system (as a result of rpm -[U|i|e] --nodeps), yum >>(or any other non-apt related depsolver) will want to remove dozens of >>packages just to force rpmdb consistency. >> >> Yes - exactly why I shifted. I designed the briQ which runs on a subversion of YellowDog. In the start I noticed that when I took a newly installed YDL and did a yum update, then yum would always complain about a lot of unresolved dependencies. I never got apt to run very well. It always crashed or screwed the rpm base up. >>If you have a pointer to the specific case where apt-rpm did the "right >>thing" and yum didn't, there might be a lesson to learn, otherwise it's >>just hogwash. >> >> I have only seen yum screw up in places where there were no easy way out. Call it operator error. Karsten
