stupid dependencies

[Martin Marques]

On Sun, 10 Sep 2006, Martin Marques wrote:

>
> On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 20:08:28 -0400 (EDT), Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:
>> On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Martin Marques wrote:
>>>
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>>> Install      0 Package(s)
>>> Update       0 Package(s)
>>> Remove       5 Package(s)
>>>
>>> Why does yum want to remove then?
>>
>> I didn't say you were wrong about yum, I just said I couldn't justify it.
>> You're right, though--yum want to take evolution-sharp, beagle, and
>> krb5-auth-dialog as dependencies too, and I don't see what the connection
>> is via rpm to those either.
>
> Maybe yum's XML package files are corrupt? I thought they got generated with
> the rpm definitions.

Here's the problem:

[root at endor ~]# rpm -e NetworkManager-glib
error: Failed dependencies:
         libnm_glib.so.0 is needed by (installed) 
evolution-2.6.3-1.fc5.5.i386

bind is needed by NetworkManager which is need by NetworkManager-glib, 
which is need by evolution. :-(

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