[packagekit] PackageKit and yum --skip-broken

[Matthias Clasen]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Rahul Sundaram
<sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 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?

Sure, PK needs to be able to handle the occasional inconsistency,
but designing the tool around the current rawhide situation (almost always
inconsistent) is just not adequate.

>> 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.

One thing that comes to mind would be to ignore 'additional' repos if
they cause conflicts with the 'main' one.