More strange F9 dependencies

Beartooth Beartooth at swva.net
Thu Nov 20 18:43:17 UTC 2008


	I have no PDA, nor expect ever to, much less hardware to connect 
it to a PC.

	When I was working, and literally running my life on rails, its 
ancestors, then called organizers, were fine things; I had a whole series 
of them. 

	Those who want or need them are welcome to them; strength to 
their arms. Theirs, not mine.  To an old retired fart without a schedule, 
a PDA or even a fancy phone is a dispensable expense, and thus cruft at 
best, if not a security liability. So I tried to cut.

[root at Hbsk2 ~]# yum remove bluez-*
	[....]
Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================
 Package                   Arch      Version             Repository       
Size 
================================================================================
Removing:
 bluez-libs                i386      3.36-1.fc9          installed        
126 k
 bluez-utils-cups          i386      3.36-1.fc9          
installed         40 k
Removing for dependencies:
 gnome-user-share          i386      0.31-1.fc9          installed        
219 k
 gvfs                      i386      0.2.5-1.fc9         installed        
3.5 M
 gvfs-fuse                 i386      0.2.5-1.fc9         
installed         25 k
 libwiimote                i386      0.4-6.fc9           
installed         46 k
 nautilus                  i386      2.22.5.1-1.fc9      
installed         15 M
 obex-data-server          i386      1:0.3.4-1.fc9       installed        
145 k
 xorg-x11-drivers          i386      7.3-4.fc9           
installed         0.0 
 xorg-x11-drv-wiimote      i386      0.0.1-1.fc9         
installed         12 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install      0 Package(s)         
Update       0 Package(s)         
Remove      10 Package(s)         

Is this ok [y/N]: n
Exiting on user Command

	Some of those dependencies certainly make sense, and others look 
likely to. Some of them. I grant that.

	Some make mud seem clear. I don't understand, despite googling, 
what gvfs is or does. I know only that it too threatened to take a long 
list of indispensable apps with it if removed -- and that the gnome 
system monitor always shows some half dozen of its creatures, sleeping.

	But what of nautilus? It would be fine for bluez to depend on it; 
but why should it depend on bluez?? Is someone going to tell me that 
pango uses bluez, with or without hardware? And then sneer down his nose 
that I'm welcome to write new code??

	What ever became of linux being tailorable??

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.




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