"yum update" dependency error

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Caerie Houchins wrote:

> On 10/11/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >   the very latest "yum update" attempt:
> >
> > --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> > Error: Unresolvable requirement redhat-artwork = 7.0.0-14.fc8 for
> > redhat-artwork-kde
> > Error: Unresolvable requirement fedorainfinity-gdm-theme for gdm

> This is what you can exclude to fix the gdm-theme requirement.
>
> yum update --exclude=fedora-gnome-theme
>
> I don't use kde and am not seeing the other error.

i know how to get around dependency errors, i just post things like
that to let the powers-that-be know of an update dependency error in
case they weren't aware of it, that's all.

or is that sort of thing not worth doing?  most of the time, the cause
is just mirrors that aren't up to speed.

rday
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