Dependency Champion

Gordon Messmer yinyang at eburg.com
Fri Nov 7 21:31:05 UTC 2008


DB wrote:
> Surely something 
> **optional* *that I install after the initial set-up cannot become a 
> dependency of something which is/was supposed to work without the 
> (unrelated) optional bit????

You are correct, that can not happen.

> Or as Yumex so kindly lists all wot it's 
> going to kill off, could there not be a way of deselecting those 
> elements that are "obviously" wrong??????

If you instruct the tool to remove a package, it does not remove other 
packages randomly or haphazardly.  You may not understand the package 
relationships, but that does not make them wrong.




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