Confused. Historically there are feature requests for relatively easy things that have been denied due to fear of (1) below. Most notable example for me is the multiple requests for new yum --force and --nodeps switches ala rpm which come up frequently.
Answer for that one is always "no way, no how, never ever - don't want to take the complaints when you shoot your eye out" or along those lines. Are we now considering scenario (2) below and taking that kind of risk for something that seems much harder/riskier to do, yet still denying the easy ones like the example above ? Or did I read the response wrong ? ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------ -----Original Message----- From: Seth Vidal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 1:36 PM To: yum development Subject: Re: [Yum-devel] pain and suffering and allowdowngrade On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Charlie Brady wrote: > I think it would be folly to encourage that thinking. The scriplets are > the fatal flaw in my mind - they are mostly one-way transformations. I > don't think the package manager is capable of supporting rollbacks - if > the users need that, then file system snapshots is probably the best > option available. Two sides to this coin: 1. users get expectations that won't work and yum gets blamed for all the suffering of the universer 2. packagers get blamed for writing unreversable scriptlets and we make the whole ecosystem better by enabling this downgrades. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list Yum-devel@lists.baseurl.org http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list Yum-devel@lists.baseurl.org http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
