Why grub requires gtk2 etc. ?

Dmitry Butskoy buc at odusz.so-cdu.ru
Mon Oct 29 15:16:05 UTC 2007


Stepan Kasal wrote:
> Hello Dmitry,
>
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 05:49:06PM +0300, Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
>   
>> An attempt to remove "gtk2" (and all what requires it) from a server leads 
>> to remove of "grub".
>>
>> Currently "grub" requires "system-logos", which is provided by 
>> "fedora-logos" package, but "fedora-logos" requires a lot of GUI stuff in 
>> F7 ...
>>     
>
> I believe this problem was fixed in early development of F-8:
>
> * Fri Jun 15 2007 Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> 6.0.98-4
> - Remove the Requires on redhat-artwork and fedora-icon-theme, and just
>   multi-own the directories.  Fixes some hilarious dependency chains.
>
> Please check F8 Test3, or wait for the final release.
>   

Thanks.

Could this fix be ported to F7 too?

(release of F8 is a good time to upgrade production servers to F7  (N-1) 
:) )

~buc




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