Florin Andrei wrote:
Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
Really - The reason dependency issues are such a big issue for fedora
is that all updates are held back because of a single package
missing a dependency. I'm sure everybody would feel better holding
back one package instead of all updates on this account.
If I'm not mistaken, yum seems fairly unique in this regard.
I mean, heck, look at Microsoft for example. Their update thing
applies as many patches as possible, and those that cannot be applied,
well duh, they don't get applied and the user is notified by big
honking red icons that something failed.
But a single error doesn't nuke the whole process. yum is _really_
boneheaded from this perspective. Your argument that a possibly much
more important security update might get masked by a dependency error
and is not applied is a very serious one and I don't think there can
be any logical rebuttal.
yum needs to be fixed, NOW. At this moment the update process puts
everyone at risk.
correct.
I think we should agree that yum _is_ broken here and needs to be fixed.
and no including a optional plugin won't help, the default behavior is
broken ( I would even say its a security bug)
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