stupid dependencies
Martin Marques
martin at bugs.unl.edu.ar
Sat Sep 9 22:14:50 UTC 2006
On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 12:06:06 -0400 (EDT), Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Martin Marques wrote:
>
>> I was updating one FC5 workstation we have, conected with a wireless AP.
> I
>> was really shocked when I say that bind was about to be updated.
>>
>> First I thought that it may not be the named server, but some libs
> necesary
>> for name resolution, so I tried to remove it.
>>
>> OOOOHHHHHHH!!!!!
>>
>> evolution, NetworkManager, NetworkManager-glib, etc. will be removed.
>>
>> Why in earth would any of these packages depende on bind?
>
> # rpm -q --whatrequires bind
> bind-config-9.3.2-20.FC5
> NetworkManager-0.6.4-1.fc5
I don't know what to say. Well, maybe this:
[root at tatooine ~]# yum remove bind
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Remove Process
Resolving Dependencies
[snip]
Dependencies Resolved
=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Removing:
bind i386 30:9.3.2-20.FC5 installed 2.0 M
Removing for dependencies:
NetworkManager i386 0.6.4-1.fc5 installed 1.2 M
NetworkManager-glib i386 0.6.4-1.fc5 installed 19 k
bind-config i386 30:9.3.2-20.FC5 installed 44 k
evolution i386 2.6.3-1.fc5.5 installed 33 M
Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 0 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 5 Package(s)
Why does yum want to remove then?
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