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(In reply to comment #73)
>
> Of course, the simple patch would allow a core package with nonfree
> dependancies, for example.
> Would that help QA catch such errors ?
> Or a core package with tainted dependancies.
> Or a tainted package with nonfree dependancies, etc.
>
> I was just trying to suggest an option that would help QA short-term without
> opening any loop-holes.
It looks like a contest for most stupid reason to avoid fixing this bug. First one was that users who enabled backports media although they don't want backports can have backports installed. Now this one is that keeping this bug unfixed can help QA catch dependency problems ?
The goal of MageiaUpdate is not doing QA on package dependencies. If QA team want to check that core packages don't have dependencies on nonfree or tainted packages they could write a simple script to check this, and it would be more reliable than relying on a bug in MageiaUpdate which only happens for packages not already installed. Or it could be integrated in build system or youri-check to automatically list such packages. I think youri-check is already checking this.