[Yum-devel] Installed unresolved dependencies

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Tue Jun 5 20:40:12 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 17:54 +0200, Terje Røsten wrote:
> Florian Festi
> > The question is if this is also the wanted or if it wouldn't be better 
> > to at least try to resolve these dependencies and pull in new packages 
> > if available? Should there be a cmd line switch and should it enable 
> > the new or the old behavior?
> You mean: let yum fix problems package-cleanup (from yum-utils) finds?
> 
> As a cmd line switch, yes that would be useful. 

Agreed.  Or as a separate util (or part of package-cleanup).  I don't
think it should be the default behavior even if we do discourage times a
million doing things like --nodeps or --force

Jeremy




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