dependency hell

[Dave Pena]

To this I'm sorry for adding to the  1 million emails everyone is going
to get tomorrow, but all I have to say is HAHAHAHAHAHA.


On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 03:50, Maynard Kuona wrote:
> 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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