Re: yum question, reverting to old packages.

[Panu Matilainen <pmatilai laiskiainen org>]

On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, Jesse Keating wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 13:32 -0400, Richard Hally wrote:
> > So maybe we should remove --oldpackage/--nodeps/--force from rpm. It
> > follows the gnome 'dumb it down' approach.
>
> No, we just don't enable these functions in the "helper" apps.  We don't
> want to help you ruin your system, we'll let you do that on your own
> with RPM.

People wishing for package downgrades are more often than not folks who 
run rawhide and other experimental packages and just want an easy way to 
back out a broken package. When a bad update has broken your system, what 
difference does it make if downgrade is "potentially dangerous"?

	- Panu -