Richard Hally <rhally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 13:32 -0400, Richard Hally wrote: > >> So maybe we should remove --oldpackage/--nodeps/--force from > >> rpm. It follows the gnome 'dumb it down' approach. > > No, we just don't enable these functions in the "helper" apps. We > > don't > > want to help you ruin your system, we'll let you do that on your own > > with RPM. > > > Excellent! RPM considered harmful. Of course our "helper" apps are not > helpful when you need help the most. </sarcasm> > > Sorry Jesse, perhaps in trying to improve the design of yum or rpm we > need to think in terms of reversibility so that updates are not > 'forward only'. When considering improvements we need to think about > robustness and recoverability. Patches are more than wellcome. Note that this means making sure that /all/ packages abide by the rules and are set up for downgrading. Just too bad that that is exactly what is least tested... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
