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Re: TESTING - jdk (java) update for SL4 and SL5
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Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[log in to unmask]>
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Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:19:13 +0000
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:

> P.P.S. I am puzzled why yum does not have the obvious improvement, where if
> you install 100 packages and yum does not like 1 of them, it still installs
> the 99 packages it is happy with.

That would be nice, though it isn't trivial to work out which
of the 99 will work without the 1. Worst case you could degenerate
into an n-squared dependency search.

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Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison		Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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