wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx (Warren Togami) writes: >> Never say 'never'... Although 'install' will be the right choice for a >> lot of systems, there are other ones where 'upgrade' is desired (not >> only for 'kernel*devel', but for 'kernel' also). E.g. for vservers it >> does not make much sense to install a second kernel. > > For corner cases like vservers or buildroots, we should have a > kernel-999 fake package. It will give only trouble... you will need yet more special magic in the depsolver to differ between the regular kernel packages and faked ones. A simple and better solution would be the removal of any exception (e.g. implicit and unoverridable 'installonlypkg' for 'kernel') or other automatism (e.g. guessing of repo- or cachedir) in the depsolver. Such paternalism will strike back -- at least with vservers or buildroots. Instead of, provide reasonable defaults (e.g. write 'installonlypkg = kernel' in the shipped yum.conf) which can be overridden by the user. > It wont ever change. Simple. What is, when next xorg-x11 requires kernel-drm >= 4.4.0? Enrico
