[CentOS] yum update --skip-broken failure

ken wrote:
> Though I've used it countless times in the past, "yum update
> --skip-broken" doesn't work anymore... it doesn't skip over updates
which have dependency problems.  Is this a known issue?  Is there a
work-around for it?  Has anyone else experienced this?
>
One thing that provokes that, in my experience, is repos from other
repositories, where it's not a dependency on this, but that repo does have
it as a dependency.

       mark