So what kind of dependency stupidity is this?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Mar 12 19:25:15 UTC 2009


Jim wrote:

> Kevin I run across this all the time, it is frustrating, but I just use 
> the command;
> 
> rpm -e --nodeps google-gadgets-qt google-gadgets google-desktop-linux
> 
> What the --nodeps is , it removes only those packages and no Dependencies.
> 
> Hopefully, someday, they will fix that problem in Yum
> 
> LOL

It is *not* a problem in yum. Yum is merely doing it's job. The 
dependencies are in the software itself in most cases and package 
maintainers control it to some extend. Kevin Kofler has already 
explained what has happened in this thread. Read it.

Rahul




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