package dependencies [was Re: cpu overheating]

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Wed Dec 13 11:22:18 UTC 2006


Tim:
>> But disregarding minimalism, there's still plenty of situations where a
>> rather extensive installation won't need various things considered to be
>> "required", but actually aren't.

Tom Horsley:
> For grins, try to remove "cdrecord" on a fedora system. If I have no
> CDRW drive, you'd think I could live without it, but the dependencies say
> it also has to remove lots of bits of gnome and even decides it has to
> remove compiz (I was trying to get rid of excess baggage in a
> Xen guest OS when I discovered this one).

I've not tried that one, but yes, I've tried to remove a few things that
had some strange cascade effects.  Please, lets have the OS separate fro
user interfaces and from applications and from other things...

> Bet you never expected CD recording software was required to make your
> windows wiggle :-).

;-)

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