On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 12:35 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 03:25:30PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > > >True, but ... the classical situation when apt/smart try to downgrade is > > >resolving broken package deps inside of an installed system. > > >apt and smart diagnose them and try to resolve them (by downgrading), > > >yum doesn't diagnose these problems and lets users believe "everything > > >is OK", while it actually isn't. > > > > > >I.e. the fact yum doesn't complain, doesn't mean it is right. > > > > > > > I have run into problems where apt tries to fix the repository issues > > and fails and doesnt let me perform other operations like updating a > > package which is completely unrelated to repo breakages. > > That's true, apt always checks the global health of your system and > bails out if it detects something broken to alert the user. That is a > debatable policy (there is no technical reason to do so) mostly > because it doesn't allow you to use apt anymore to fix the breakage. I yum installed smart and now when I try to invoke it I get this.. [root@iam ~]# smart --gui error: Interface 'gtk' not available [root@iam ~]# Seems a dependency wasn't considered and I have everything gtk installed known to yum... via yum install gtk* ..about 40 megs worth and I still get this error. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ...the Sin of Ignorance, and ...the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
