Crazy dependancy issues in f7?

David Timms dtimms at iinet.net.au
Tue Jul 3 11:10:30 UTC 2007


Dan wrote:
> Is there any quality control in fedora any more?
> 
> Trying to set up a server. During install i unselected gnome and X11.
> Clearly, some package requiring these was still selected, so anaconda
> installed both gnome and X11.
> 
> Now I'm trying to remove gnome, x11, and all the useless crap I wont ever
> need on a server (synaptics?) when I reached this point: grub required
> gtk2.
> 
> Why the hell does a boot manager, grub, require a graphical toolkit?
> 
> The only way I could remove gtk2 was to remove grub. Example, to now
> install grub:
I raised this in fedora-development-list and I understand that an 
improvement has been implemented in the development repo:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.laptop.olpc.devel/4445/focus=56313

DaveT.




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