FC6 updates broken deps?

[Florin Andrei]

Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:

> Really - The reason dependency issues are such a big issue for fedora is 
>  that all updates are held back because of a single package missing a 
> dependency. I'm sure everybody would feel better holding back one 
> package instead of all updates on this account.

If I'm not mistaken, yum seems fairly unique in this regard.

I mean, heck, look at Microsoft for example. Their update thing applies 
as many patches as possible, and those that cannot be applied, well duh, 
they don't get applied and the user is notified by big honking red icons 
that something failed.

But a single error doesn't nuke the whole process. yum is _really_ 
boneheaded from this perspective. Your argument that a possibly much 
more important security update might get masked by a dependency error 
and is not applied is a very serious one and I don't think there can be 
any logical rebuttal.

yum needs to be fixed, NOW. At this moment the update process puts 
everyone at risk.

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Florin Andrei

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