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[Leszek Matok]

Dnia 25-06-2006, nie o godzinie 18:53 +0530, Rahul Sundaram napisał(a):
> rpm is a low level tool
> Its generally a good design not to expose all of
> the functionality in higher level tools
True, but yum is a dep-resolver and rpm-downloader. I expect it to allow
me to specify version of a package I want to have (either upgrade to
newer, but not newest, or downgrade to older), then check if it can
satisfy all the dependencies with that version. I don't want it to have
--nodeps nor real --force, only something like rpm --oldpackage and rpm
-F package-version.rpm (now it's equivalent to say rpm -F package-*.rpm
and selects the newest).

If the dependencies can be satisfied and I want to test some package
version (because I want to see which version introduced a bug I'm
reporting on bugzilla, helping you fix it), there's no reason not to let
me do it. It's far from rpm -e --nodeps glibc, you know :)

Telling users on the list to use rpm --force --nodeps --whatever instead
of yum install package-older-version is teaching them bad things and is
more harmful.

Oh, and a real high level tool is a gui to yum, which doesn't have to be
able to downgrade. At least if I'm using yum (middle level ;)) to
downgrade something I'm more confident it won't break anything (or tell
me if downgrading is not possible).

Lam
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