Re: Upgrade of unmaintained packages

[Rik van Riel <riel redhat com>]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, seth vidal wrote:

> >     I forgot to stick a smiley in there somewhere, caught up in
> > frustration with yum as I was.  :-)
> 
> so in your ideal world, what is it that yum should do when confronted
> with a broken dependency or package?

On a distro upgrade, prune the dependency tree and upgrade
just the packages it can (like apt-get's --fix-missing option).

The remaining packages will need to be cleaned up by the user,
but in general the bulk of the packages can still be upgraded.

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