[Yum] identical dependency loop exceeded

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 13:10, Greg Kurtzer wrote:
> 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'?

I'm not removing packages during an update or an upgrade, ever, really.

it's not acceptable behavior imo, especially in the case of -y being
set.

-sv