[Yum-devel] pain and suffering and allowdowngrade

[Skahan, Vince]

Confused.

Historically there are feature requests for relatively easy things that
have been denied due to fear of (1) below. Most notable example for me
is the multiple requests for new yum --force and --nodeps switches ala
rpm which come up frequently.

Answer for that one is always "no way, no how, never ever - don't want
to take the complaints when you shoot your eye out" or along those
lines.

Are we now considering scenario (2) below and taking that kind of risk
for something that seems much harder/riskier to do, yet still denying
the easy ones like the example above ?

Or did I read the response wrong ?

------ vince.skahan at boeing.com ------



-----Original Message-----
From: Seth Vidal [mailto:skvidal at fedoraproject.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 1:36 PM
To: yum development
Subject: Re: [Yum-devel] pain and suffering and allowdowngrade



On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Charlie Brady wrote:

> I think it would be folly to encourage that thinking. The scriplets
are
> the fatal flaw in my mind - they are mostly one-way transformations. I
> don't think the package manager is capable of supporting rollbacks -
if
> the users need that, then file system snapshots is probably the best
> option available.


Two sides to this coin:

1. users get expectations that won't work and yum gets blamed for all
the 
suffering of the universer

2. packagers get blamed for writing unreversable scriptlets and we make 
the whole ecosystem better by enabling this downgrades.

-sv

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