Pirut issues

[Nikhil Fernandes]

I made the jump to FC5 two days ago, and it's great, but the
installation was painful.

To begin with, the FC5 install wouldn't go through at all(Possibly a
problem with the DVD), so I had to wipe my disk, install a minimal
install of FC4 and then upgrade. That worked fine.

Now I tried to add various software groups, and Pirut went nuts on me. I
spent a long time selecting the packages, and then after grinding away,
it spat out a bunch of dependency errors at me. I was connected to the
internet, and I had installed nothing outside of the core and extras
repos, so it didn't make sense. I tried to install some of the packages
that had unresolved dependencies (most of them seemed to do with mono -
f-spot was one of them) through yum, and that worked fine. 

I then went back to Pirut, and selected a smaller group of packages, and
the install went smoothly. Started Pirut again to add some more
software, and that also went fine - until i realised that Pirut had
removed a bunch of software (openoffice. evolution) that it didn't tell
me it was going to remove. I did this cycle a few more times, and found
stuff like gnome and kde being removed at random. I eventually gave up
and did the entire install through yum.

Has anyone seen this issue? I couldn't find anything in bugzilla.

Nikhil Fernandes