On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:21:17 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot <Nicolas.Mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > OTOH a shorthand for --exclude would be welcome. > Sometimes on rawhide you end up with several lines of this stuff just to > get around a bad build state. I think designing features specifically meant to make it easy to workaround typical rawhide breakage.. is probably not a good way to go about picking features to expose to users out of the metaphysical feature multiverse... even in a cli interface. Would it be better to move away from the --exclude list concept completely, and have yum report back to you a list of packages that can not be updated and give you a chance to exclude the whole list interactively and proceed with the rest of the updates? <me>yum update ...yum thinks a bit... <yum>dude there are like 17 out of 34 packages i can't actually update because of unresolvable deps. Heres the list: ....yum lists packages that can not be updated.... <yum>Would you like me to exclude this set of packages and attempt to update the rest? <me> uhm... sure. ...yum thinks a bit... <yum>Here are the list of 17 package updates for you to review would you like to proceed? <me>yes ...yum continues as usual... -jef
