I am opening this bug to seperate one of the issues out of bug #50899. Prior relevant text: ------- Additional comments from pzb 2001-08-05 11:46:53 ------- This also showed up on my laptop during the upgrade from Zoot to Roswell. The unresolved deps screen was caused by foreign (non-Red Hat provided) packages being installed on my system. All the packages listed had 'no suggestion' listed under 'Requirement'. Even though there were not any packages to potentially install, there was still an option to 'Install packages to satisfy dependencies'. Choosing this option has the same result as choosing 'Ignore package dependencies': unsatisified deps on the machine post-install. Additionally, the option 'Do not install packages that have dependencies' does not make sense, as the listed packages are already installed on the system. I realize that this screen has existed as long as anaconda has existed, but it could be confusing to users who are not familiar with RPM dependencies. This screen seems unnecessary unless the user has selected 'Customize packages to be upgraded' or 'Select individual packages' as there is never an option for the end user -- if they want a functional system, the dependencies must be resolved. The only time it seems reasonable to show the screen is when the user has chosen to select individual packages. Could anaconda not show the 'Unresolved Dependencies' screen unless the user has manually selected packages? Otherwise it would just automatically choose 'Install packages to satisfy dependencies' and skip the screen. ------- Additional comments from bfox 2001-08-10 18:24:06 ------- Ok, we're talking about a few different issues here. One is that the package dependency screen needs some work. That can't be done in the current release time frame, but perhaps in the future.
To be clear, I do not expect this to be resolved during the Fairfax development cycle. It will require anaconda work too significant to be done this late in the game.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 46322 ***
I wasn't trying to seperate out the choosing which ones to deal with. My bug is that if all packages have 'No Suggestion', then 'Install packages to satisfy dependencies' should not be an option. I don't think Bug #46322 covers this bug.
I've fixed this in cvs.