James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> > If we don't have a good default course of action, why do you think the >> > user is going to know better? >> >> Why do you think, that 'yum' knows which choice is the best one? E.g. the >> 'plymouth' case shows that the wrong decision was taken and that the user >> would have made the right one. > > You mean an extremely well informed user might have made the better > choice. Chances are much higher that a user (who knows his needs) makes a better choice than 'yum' which follows a shorter-wins strategy. > I'm not sure _I_ would have, I guess if I had the package summaries I > could work out what -solar was by reading what -text-and-details-only > did and assuming it was the opposite. A user friendly prompting would be: ---- 'yum' encountered an ambiguous situation while trying to resolve the 'foo-bar' dependency. Do you want to continue with the builtin strategy ([Y])? When not, you can install [1] foo-blub (15KiB size, 8 direct dependencies) [2] bar-blub (42MiB size, 23 direct dependencies) [A] all of the packages above or show the [S] summary [D] full description of these packages? Please enter your choice (separate multiple packages by ',' or by space): ---- > I've recently posted a patch to the yum ML which would allow Fedora (or > any active repo.) to configure these choices manually. We could then > also easily have different defaults for the desktop vs. the server > spins. Idea of spins is ok when creating CD/DVD images but pretty useless for online installations/upgrades. Enrico -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
