FC6 updates broken deps?

[dragoran]

Florin Andrei wrote:
> Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
>
>> Really - The reason dependency issues are such a big issue for fedora 
>> is  that all updates are held back because of a single package 
>> missing a dependency. I'm sure everybody would feel better holding 
>> back one package instead of all updates on this account.
>
> If I'm not mistaken, yum seems fairly unique in this regard.
>
> I mean, heck, look at Microsoft for example. Their update thing 
> applies as many patches as possible, and those that cannot be applied, 
> well duh, they don't get applied and the user is notified by big 
> honking red icons that something failed.
>
> But a single error doesn't nuke the whole process. yum is _really_ 
> boneheaded from this perspective. Your argument that a possibly much 
> more important security update might get masked by a dependency error 
> and is not applied is a very serious one and I don't think there can 
> be any logical rebuttal.
>
> yum needs to be fixed, NOW. At this moment the update process puts 
> everyone at risk.
>
correct.
I think we should agree that yum _is_ broken here and needs to be fixed.
and no including a optional plugin won't help, the default behavior is 
broken ( I would even say its a security bug)