[Yum-devel] pain and suffering and allowdowngrade

[Seth Vidal]

> 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 ?
>

you didn't read the response wrong but these feature requests are not 
analagous in my mind.

--force, --nodeps is: "zomg, wtf, it is broken and I can force it to work 
right now by taking this hammer and pounding this square peg into this 
round hole, WHAM WHAM WHAM, see, there it, works, told you."

downgrade is (often times): "I just upgraded from pkg-1.1 to pkg-1.2 and 
1.2 is borked in stupid ways. I want to go backward from here for this 
package and I don't know what deps it just pulled in for this upgrade so 
figure that out."


My concern for downgrade is not the above. It is the people who want 
downgrade to be an entire distro downgrade. Or they want it to actually be 
a real 'rollback' which implies a great deal more than just downgrading a 
set of pkgs.

Do you see the difference from my perspective?

-sv