[Yum-devel] [PATCH][RFC] Skip-broken support again

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 14:45 +0100, Florian Festi wrote:
> Sorry. It looks like the skip broken code works exactly the opposite way I 
> thought: It removes the packages that leads to the problem.
> 
> I've commited two test cases that give an idea why this might not be the 
> best strategy (hmm, may be I should add some doc strings...).

There's a lot of the test case you're describing in
testAlternativePackageAvailable() that has much more to do with intent.

if I type

yum install foo bar-1.1

and skipbroken realizes bar-1.1 can't be installed and backtracks it out
and replaces it with bar-ng. I, as the user, am going to be fairly
pissed.

..

-sv