[packagekit] PackageKit and yum --skip-broken
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Oct 29 12:50:25 PDT 2008
Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Rahul Sundaram
> <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> Wasn't aware of that. This doesn't seem to be intuitive. IIRC the GNOME
>> HIG discourages options that are only accessible via the context menus
>> as well. I doubt users at http://packagekit.org/pk-profiles.html are
>> going to discover this either.
>
> Most users shouldn't ever need to be aware of these options. It's just
> for the few of us using broken "development" repositories.
Just plain wrong. There are plenty of reasons to cherry pick packages
and not just because of broken repositories. Sometimes I am on a low
bandwidth connection and want to pick the small but high impact updates
for example.
Rahul
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