Dependencies a little excessive?

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 11:47:23PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> I guess my main complaint boils down to "this behavior seems un-yumlike".
> It's an intuitive dislike. I mean, disk space and bandwith are cheap enough

Another parallel example: sendmail, postfix, and exim all provide
smtpdaemon, but "yum install smtpdaemon" doesn't install all of those.

And "yum remove smtpdaemon" *does* try to remove all matches. Okay, this
isn't necessarily the best behavior, but it is what I expect from yum, and
it's inconsistent that arch doesn't work this way. And at least with arch,
we've got a decent way of guessing which one is "better" for installation.

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