Hi Seth, Note - I'm not blaming yum for these problems. Its not yum's fault we have inconsitent versions of packages in the tree. On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 07:36, seth vidal wrote: > > > My question is: is this normal? If not am I doing some thing wrong and what > > > additional information will be useful in finding out what? Should I cut and > > > paste terminal output with date and time and yum.conf? > > > > It appears to be normal, but what I'm quite surprised about is that > > there appears to be no --just-do-the-best-you-can flag for yum? > > B/c that works not so much at all when you're trying to resolve > dependencies. I'm just curious, though. If the standard practice to work around such problems is for people to do --exclude=broken-package, why couldn't we not have a --exclude-broken-packages flag? Thanks, Mark.