yum broken dep default behaviour

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 09:21 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 07:23:17PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > >If not then that is exactly correct behavior. Just b/c you have a broken
> > >dep somewhere else doesn't mean you can't make these packages over here
> > >work.
> > I think what Rudolf Kastl is looking for is a equivalent to apt-get -f 
> > install.
> 
> "package-cleanup --problems", from yum-utils, can show you what's Not Right.
> 
> Maybe yum-utils should come with a cron script that runs that periodically
> and whines if an issue is found.
> 

why? Why not let the user run package-cleanup in cron if they want to?

If they have a broken dep on some misc package that they installed and
that won't affect the rest of the system - where's the harm?


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