So what kind of dependency stupidity is this?

Kevin Martin kevintm at ameritech.net
Fri Mar 13 02:47:04 UTC 2009


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>> HUH?  What possible reason could there be for anything related to KDE to
>> have with the google garbage?
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>> Thanks.
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>> Kevin
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> Kevin I run across this all the time, it is frustrating, but I just
> use the command;
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> rpm -e --nodeps google-gadgets-qt google-gadgets google-desktop-linux
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> What the --nodeps is , it removes only those packages and no
> Dependencies.
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> Hopefully, someday, they will fix that problem in Yum
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> LOL
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Yes, that's what I ultimately did; it's just that one shouldn't have to
force a --nodeps on a remove for something like google* (or anything
else for that matter).  The dependencies for google "stuff" will be
removed, apparently, with the release of KDE 4.2.1 so I guess it'll
happen then.

Kevin




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