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Description of problem: When a package is updated with a broken one yum stops from updating all the packages and not just the ones affected by broken one. This is annoying and could stop a user from updating a serious security problem if a non-related update has a broken package, specially if the updates are done automatically. In my opinion, yum should remove the bad packages from the list of available updates and try to update all packages that he have not found problems. This would keep the system updated until the user actually notice the problem and fix the problem by him self or the updated package is fixed by the maintainer.
We've addressed this many times before in other bugs. Short version: It's unsafe to do that b/c it gives the person a false sense of security.
I don't get it, the false sense of security is what happens now, that you are able to make your machine update automaticly and those updates can fail because there is some extra package that was updated with a broken package. Maybe the auto-update should be taken off the fedora system then, because with this bug they can give a "false sense of security" to the user. Could you point me out where is those discussions, so I can enlight myself on why this bug is a "wontfix"?