Fedora 11 wireless-tools yum erase?

TK009 john.brown009 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 21 15:40:28 UTC 2009


On 06/21/2009 07:57 AM, Michal Schmidt wrote:
> Dne Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:14:04 +0100
> Frank Murphy<frankly3d at gmail.com>  napsal(a):
>
>    
>> Why does yum erase wireless-tools want to:
>> Removing for dependencies:
>> anaconda
>> firstboot
>> rhpl
>> system-config-(boot,date,date-docs,firewall,
>> firewall-tui,keyboard,kickstart,language,lvm,
>> network,network-tui,rootpassword,users,users-docs)
>>
>> This is a wired desktop, that has absolutely no need for wireless
>> or indeed wpa-supplicant which want to remove:
>> NetworkManager
>> NetworkManager-gnome
>> anaconda
>> system-config-kickstart
>>
>> I know --nodeps could be used, or indeed use "network service"
>> but currently have no problems with NM
>>
>> Bu how?, are they tied into so much.
>>
>> Frank
>>
>>      
>
> Someone already requested this:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480558
>
> Why does it bother you? The package is not that big.
>
> Michal
>
>    
You are correct someone has already requested this change. That was 
almost six months ago, with little to no movement since then. Request 
for info from the maintainer for for 5+ months. Still has a status of 
new. Those are the problems I see with the bug report.

As to the bug itself, I can not and will not speak for why it bothers 
the OP. To answer your question though, it bothers me because I don't 
want packages on my machine I don't need. As it is my machine that is 
reason enough. Size is irrelevant.

With all due respect to Jeremy, I am removing his need info flag and 
assigning this bug as an RFE. This bug has the information needed to be 
actionable.

If someone feels this is incorrect, feel free to change it again (I 
don't do revision wars). Just have the courtesy to let me know why you 
made that change so we are on the same page for the future.


Edward (TK009)
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