FC6 updates broken deps?

[dragoran]

Thomas M Steenholdt schrieb:
> seth vidal wrote:
>>
>> and this is why the update system is writing out update data. So, we can
>> differentiate b/t update for feature and update for security, or
>> different grades of a security update.
>>
>> then we can work more intelligently on:
>> yum update security-critical-only (as an example)
>>
>
> That would be a nice thing for sure, but would really depend on the 
> inclusion of some sort of --continue-on-failure functionality of yum. 
> It makes no sense to provide a "security updates only" option, if the 
> 20 security updates in there could potentially be held back because of 
> a dep problem with one of them.
>
> I've said this a thousand times over and I'll say it again. I would 
> *much* rather have 1 package with a known security problem (held back 
> because of a dep issue with that package), than 20.
>
+1 !
there is no reason to hold back an update because of a broken dep thats 
not even related to it.
> /Thomas
>