Upgrade of unmaintained packages

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le ven, 30/01/2004 à 16:31 -0600, Bryan W. Headley a écrit :
> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

> > Life would be sooo much easier if yum update warned :
> > Can not update svg package because it would break abiword (fedora-
> > devel), gdm (fedora-devel), gimp2 (fedora.us). Skip it ?
> 
> That's not just yum, that's apt/deb, too. The same is true, given your 
> example, of one of these tools deciding, due to cascading dependencies, 
> to remove 200 packages...

Of course ;) (though apt at least tries, and tells you what it will do
so one can stop it when it gets horribly wrong).

But anyway I'm sure Seth's aim is not to be only just as good/bad or the
competition. He wants yum to be better.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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