Dependency loops considered harmful?
Matej Cepl
mcepl at redhat.com
Thu Sep 4 11:16:38 UTC 2008
On 2008-09-03, 17:39 GMT, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Actually its more about the removal scenario, lets say someone
> does:
> df
> yum install vegastrike (drags in vegastrike-data)
> df (who thats big)
><play vegastrike> (hey that games sucks and eats up my HD-space)
> yum remove vegastrike
> df (WTF, why am I still missing 0.4 Gigs of HD-space ??)
And I am afraid there will be no real resolution of this problem,
until yum will be able to do the same thing which aptitude on
Debian was able to do for years -- remembering which package was
installed because user wanted to do so, and which one was
installed only to satisfy dependencies.
Matej
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