On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 11:34 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
Partially true - but yum is smart, and smart is smarter.
For example, just this morning yum quit updating. I don't recall the
details, but I had installed videolan-client from dries yum repos, and an
update of one of it's depends (from a different repo) broke it.
yum was stymied.
smart just offered to downgrade the depend, and happily fixed it.
Sounds to me like user error. Perhaps your yum config didn't know about
the other repository.
Smart is duplicate functionality for the most part. See if you can get
it into Extras.
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