yum plugin suggestion or yum change?

[Thomas M Steenholdt]

Hi,

although I find yum to be an excellent tool, there is one important 
thing that I think needs attention.

When updating multiple packages, yum will bail out on dependency error 
with a singloe package.

For the development repo i guess this is *just* annoying, but in a 
real-life prod style environment, it could mean that security updates 
are not applied by the nightly scheduled yum update. Giving crackers 
better time to target the systems.

I realize that fixing something like this needs some policies to be 
negotiated, since often the dependency problems can be solved in 
multiple ways and we need to figure out how to handle such cases. But 
wouldn't it be a good idea to try to make yum figure out what packages 
to exclude in order to update as much as possible?

/Thomas