On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:14:56AM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: > On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: >> If I'm not mistaken yum is developed to work only with Fedora >> repositories which are conflict free, while the other depsolvers try >> to handle more general repositories with conflicts. This gives yum a >> big advantage as it doesn't need to use as complex algorithms as the >> other depsolvers use. IIRC this reduces the complexity of the problem >> from exponential to polynomial. > > Yum was not developed with that in mind at all. Yum repos have conflicts > all the time. The issue is not with repos having conflicts, it is with > installed pkgs (or to be installed) packages having conflicts. Right, I meant conflicts between latest versions of packages in all repositories. Is there a plan to handle such conflicts in yum? A fair comparison would be possible then. -- Miroslav Lichvar -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
