[packagekit] PackageKit and yum --skip-broken

[Matthias Clasen]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Rahul Sundaram
<sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Richard Hughes wrote:
>
>> The real fix is not to allow the repos to get in such an inconsistent
>> state.
>
> I am sorry. Such idealism doesn't work in practise. Repo inconsistencies
> are a fact of life for reasons that we can't control or fix easily. You
> can't control what third party repos do and many users will use them
> anyway. PackageKit should be dealing with this more gracefully.
>

Just not true. There is no reason that repos cannot be kept internally
consistent at all times.
Inconsistencies between multiple repositories are different, and
should probably be treated
differently, too.