[packagekit] PackageKit and yum --skip-broken

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Oct 27 13:16:41 PDT 2008


Matthias Clasen wrote:

> Just not true. There is no reason that repos cannot be kept internally
> consistent at all times.

Tools are supposed to deal with the current reality. Not a idealised 
version of it. Even if theoretically repos can be kept consistent, in 
practise it isn't always that way. So what is PackageKit going to do 
about it?

> Inconsistencies between multiple repositories are different, and
> should probably be treated
> differently, too.

How exactly? Majority of users end up using multiple repositories anyway 
so the situation of a user using just a single repository is mostly 
irrelevant.

Rahul



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