On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 16:53 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: > Sure, though I would hope the user would stop a removal of 1500 packages > and complain on the list like Klaus did. > > Another solution is to move away from incremental maintenance of the set > of installed packages and instead solve the dependencies from scratch on > each yum run, starting with a list of "wanted" packages maintained by > the sysadmin. This would take some discipline to get right, but it has > the major benefit that systems can no longer get stuck in an unusual or > "wrong" state. I believe aptitude remembers which of the installed > packages were "wanted" and then automatically removes unwanted leaves, > but the general approach is still incremental rather than from-scratch. > And yum is working in that direction - we're recording things people ask for as opposed to things pulled in by dep so we can eventually take action based on the difference. take a look at the output from yumdb sometime. -sv -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
