On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:14:56AM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> If I'm not mistaken yum is developed to work only with Fedora
> repositories which are conflict free, while the other depsolvers try
> to handle more general repositories with conflicts. This gives yum a
> big advantage as it doesn't need to use as complex algorithms as the
> other depsolvers use. IIRC this reduces the complexity of the problem
> from exponential to polynomial.
Yum was not developed with that in mind at all. Yum repos have conflicts
all the time. The issue is not with repos having conflicts, it is with
installed pkgs (or to be installed) packages having conflicts.
Right, I meant conflicts between latest versions of packages in
all repositories.
Is there a plan to handle such conflicts in yum? A fair comparison
would be possible then.
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Miroslav Lichvar