fc8 package manager

[James McManus]

It was grass-libs that required gdal to be removed.  When I installed gdal
it require grass-libs this make sense.

Jim

On Dec 14, 2007 9:57 AM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 09:10 -0500, James McManus wrote:
> > Since installing fc8, I have been having problems with the package
> > manager. Sometimes when I uninstall a package it will require me to
> > remove other packages, that the package I am removing uses, but that
> > are not dependent on that package. For instance if I try and remove
> > Grass, it will tell me that I also have to remove GDAL. Grass uses
> > GDAL to read and write files, so it has to be installed for Grass to
> > work properly. However, GDAL is a stand alone package, and does not
> > need Grass to work. In fact a lot of other packages, such as
> > Mapserver, uses GDAL, so it would create problems for those packages,
> > if I removed it. I did not have this problem in previous versions of
> > Fedora. What has happened to fc8?
> >
> > Jim
> Use rpm -e to remove Grass not yum.
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