[Yum] identical dependency loop exceeded

[Greg Kurtzer]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 08:35:17AM -0500, seth vidal told me:
> Here is how yum does depsolving. It goes through and tries to satisfy
> the requests of ts.check() if it goes through more than 5 dependency
> loops with no change in the output of ts.check() then it means that
> nothing new is happening on the resolution front and we should just give
> up.
> 
> The reason is stated above, you were trying to update mozilla but it
> would leave you with a broken epiphany, so it can't update.

This may have been asked before, but why have yum exit rather then offer to
fix (ie. removing epiphany)? I see how this can be dangerous for 'update' but
why not 'upgrade'?

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