[Yum] Yum munging systems?

[Panu Matilainen]

On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 15:05 -0700, Karsten Jeppesen wrote:
> I lately read that on FC3 systems apt is the recommended depsolver and 
> that yum is known to munge FC3 systems.
> Personally I haven't had any such problems, but I would like to know if 
> anybody here knows something about that issue.

Of all the depsolvers out there apt is the one with most potential of
screwing up your system royally if you happen to have some unresolved
dependencies on your system (as a result of rpm -[U|i|e] --nodeps), yum
(or any other non-apt related depsolver) will want to remove dozens of
packages just to force rpmdb consistency.

If you have a pointer to the specific case where apt-rpm did the "right
thing" and yum didn't, there might be a lesson to learn, otherwise it's
just hogwash.

	- Panu -