One option smart needs to conquer the world

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 17:41 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 10:44:35PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
> > On 2/22/06, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> > > Something that strikes in particular in this discussion is that yum is
> > > not capable of considering past releases of a package at all due to
> > > design bugs (it throws all "unneccessary" old packages out of the
> > > first pass calculation). So what's easier than to declare a bug to a
> > > feature :)
> > 
> > No it doesn't. Yum can consider them but it's not a very well tested path.
> 
> That's nice to hear, I didn't know you changed your mind on that. So
> is there at least a small test case where you can demonstrate this?
> Because up to now most bugs reported by me were explained due to yum
> throwing out those "old" packages too early out of its dependency
> calculation.

Yum can consider them - the ways to use the yum cli doesn't ever expose
them b/c I still think it's a dangerous proposition.

-sv