Dependency Hell[F7-x86_64]

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat Jul 7 07:51:28 UTC 2007


Kelly wrote:
> On Saturday, July 07, 2007 3:14 am Sean Bruno wrote:
>> I was going to rip NetworkManager out of my machine just now, and yum
>> went in and found some really nifty dependencies that made me sit up and
>> take notice.  I can't believe that pidgin and evolution really use NM
>> libs.  Is this for real?
> 
> Yes, I've heard this one before.  I don't fully understand why huge sections 
> of Gnome rely on NetworkManager.  Could it be the same reason Gnome is 
> starting to have a HUGE dependency on Mono to function?

I don't have mono or Network Manager (it's a desktop) installed and I 
can easily continue using GNOME. Can you be more specific on what you 
consider "HUGE dependency"?

Rahul




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