[Yum-devel] [PATCH][RFC] Add skip-broken to YumBase

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 08:04 +0100, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> seth vidal wrote: 
> > On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 21:36 -0500, James Bowes wrote:
> >   
> > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 11:22:42AM +0100, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> > >     
> > > > I have created at patch to add skip-broken functionality to YumBase.
> > > >       
> > > While I'm not against adding skip-broken to core yum, or other things
> > > like downgrades and pinning (though others may disagree ;) ), I don't
> > > know how comfortable I am adding features to the depsolver right now vs
> > > hardening the existing behaviour and speeding it up.
> > > 
> > >     
> > 
> > not to mention that skip-broken internally equivalently makes our
> > progress bars go backward :(
> > 
> > -sv
> > 
> >   
> Maybe its to early in the morning for me, but i don't have a clue what
> you are talking about :) :)
> 

Progress events for depsolving. It seems like if we're restarting the
depsolve process in that way we'll end up with reducing how much
progress we've made.

so we'll have a progress bar which goes:
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or maybe I'm just thinking about it oddly.

-sv