On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 13:42 +0200, Stefan Hundhammer wrote: > > My solution is simple; just automatically remove the > > conflicting files and let the user know you are doing that. Or provide > > sane default setting which can be easily agreed upon. ... > In the old (pre-10.1) package manager we offered that kind of solution. But > frankly, it was never very useful. And those users who selected that probably > had to reinstall the system in most cases. > > I don't think it's a good idea to reintroduce that kind of behaviour. It > hurts > more than it could possibly heal. >
The more I work with openSUSE the more I feel the dependency handling by zypper/yast2 really needs improvement. Updating becomes impossible for novices. Right now when I want to update I get the following error, it really is a shame that one has manually delete packages in order to fix dependency problems manually: > >2 Problems: > >Problem: No valid solution found with just resolvables of best > >architecture. Problem: Cannot install wesnoth-data-base, because it is > >conflicting with wesnoth-data > > >Problem: No valid solution found with just resolvables of best > >architecture. With this run only resolvables with the best architecture > >have been regarded. Regarding all possible resolvables takes time, but > >can come to a valid result. > > >Solution 1: Make a solver run with ALL possibilities. > > Regarding all resolvables with a compatible architecture. > >number, (r)etry or (c)ancel> -- Regards, Aniruddha Please adhere to the OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
