Trying to slim down my installation

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:52:43 -0700 (PDT), Steven wrote:

> 
> At 79 MB, libgweather is one of the larger packages I have installed. 
> Now, I think, "I really don't need libgweather, I'll just remove it". 
> Just to be safe, I do a 
> 
> ~# rpm -q --whatrequires libgweather
> no package requires libgweather
> 
> and think cool, time to uninstall libgweather. However,
> 
> ~# rpm -e libgweather
> error: Failed dependencies:
>     libgweather.so.1 is needed by (installed) evolution-data-server-2.27.2-1.fc12.i586
>     libgweather.so.1 is needed by (installed) gnome-panel-2.26.2-2.fc12.i586
>     libgweather.so.1 is needed by (installed) gnome-applets-1:2.27.2-1.fc12.i586
> 
> I seem to be getting conflicting information here. To which app(s) belong(s) the bug(s)?
> 

None. "libgweather" is the package name here. Nothing requires this
name. The dependencies require the "libgweather.so.1" library name,
though. The library may move to a different package any time.