So what kind of dependency stupidity is this?
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Mar 12 19:25:15 UTC 2009
Jim wrote:
> Kevin I run across this all the time, it is frustrating, but I just use
> the command;
>
> rpm -e --nodeps google-gadgets-qt google-gadgets google-desktop-linux
>
> What the --nodeps is , it removes only those packages and no Dependencies.
>
> Hopefully, someday, they will fix that problem in Yum
>
> LOL
It is *not* a problem in yum. Yum is merely doing it's job. The
dependencies are in the software itself in most cases and package
maintainers control it to some extend. Kevin Kofler has already
explained what has happened in this thread. Read it.
Rahul
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