Richard Hally <rhally(a)mindspring.com> wrote:
Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 13:32 -0400, Richard Hally wrote:
>> So maybe we should remove --oldpackage/--nodeps/--force from
>> rpm. It follows the gnome 'dumb it down' approach.
> No, we just don't enable these functions in the "helper" apps. We
> don't
> want to help you ruin your system, we'll let you do that on your own
> with RPM.
>
Excellent! RPM considered harmful. Of course our "helper" apps are not
helpful when you need help the most. </sarcasm>
Sorry Jesse, perhaps in trying to improve the design of yum or rpm we
need to think in terms of reversibility so that updates are not
'forward only'. When considering improvements we need to think about
robustness and recoverability.
Patches are more than wellcome.
Note that this means making sure that /all/ packages abide by the rules and
are set up for downgrading. Just too bad that that is exactly what is least
tested...
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