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
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