On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 12:29 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: > I don't think so. It's like this: > > I want to install appA. It has depB. > > repoA and repoB both have depB. repoA has appA. > > Installing (via yum, smart, or whatever) picks up appA from repoA, and depB > from repoB. > > Now, repoB updates depB. No reason it shouldn't. > > Now, IIUC, yum gives up on this situation. It wants to update depB, but > appA needs the old version. > > IIUC, not only does yum not update depB, but it _stops updating anything > completely_. Your nightly yum upgrade stops until you notice the problem > and manually repair it. (Correct me if I'm wrong here). It's because this is a safer behaviour than guessing around various errors. You think it's wonderful, but it's far more error-prone than not doing anything "automagically" until the problem is actually fixed. Working around brokenness is a very slippery path to far graver and more obscure brokenness down the line. Regards, -- Konstantin Ryabitsev McGill University WSG Montréal, Québec -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
