Re: Policy or best practice on mentioning dependency issues

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seth vidal wrote:
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 10:46 +0200, Florian Festi wrote:
For dist upgrades it might even be necessary to remove already installed pkgs. This all has to be done with care or you end up with a system with some of the essential pkgs (kernel, glibc, yum, Python, ...) missing or in an endless loop.

there are several thousand ways that I hate "removing already installed
pkgs" as an automatic solution to a depsolving problem. That kind of
thinking for me does not fill me with confidence as I've watched that
behavior screw up far too often.

We have implemented that in our own depsolver where it works quite well. We were able to upgrade between all Fedora releases since FC4 without manual interaction. But for a machine I care about I would omit the -y switch...

In fact there is no way doing dist upgrades without removing old packages. And I have more confidence in an well thought algorithm than into a hand crafted pkg list.

Florian

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