dependency hell

Maynard Kuona knxmay001 at mail.uct.ac.za
Fri Mar 26 11:50:26 UTC 2004


I have noticed something worrying about dependencies in Fedora. This is
the output of "apt-get remove qt"

        [root at localhost maynard]# apt-get remove qt
        Reading Package Lists... Done
        Building Dependency Tree... Done
        The following packages will be REMOVED:
          abiword arts arts-devel bug-buddy chromium control-center
        desktop-printing
          epiphany evolution firstboot gdm gnome-applets gnome-blog
        gnome-desktop
          gnome-media gnome-panel gnome-pilot gnome-pilot-conduits
          gnome-python2-applet gnome-session gnome-themes-extras
        gnome-utils
          gnome-volume-manager gstreamer-plugins gstreamer-plugins-audio
          gstreamer-plugins-devel gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio
          gstreamer-plugins-extra-dvd gstreamer-plugins-extra-video
          kernel-source#2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1 metacity mplayer mplayer-gui
        nautilus
          nautilus-cd-burner nautilus-media qt qt-designer qt-devel
        redhat-artwork
          rhythmbox system-config-display
        0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 42 removed and 32 not upgraded.
        Need to get 0B of archives.
        After unpacking 410MB disk space will be freed.
        Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
        Abort.
        
This is worrying. Is there any reason for GNOME programs to have
dependencies on qt. This is possible, and probably is a result of the
whole redhat-artwork thingy. Can these be built in such a way that it is
possible to remove qt without removing non qt related packages.







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