dependencies running wild again

[Jerry Amundson]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 14 February 2009 01:01:35 am Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Michal Jaegermann wrote:
>> > This only shows that my initial reaction was waaay too mild.  Try
>> > 'yum remove mysql' and watch what happens.
>>
>> mysql is the client lib, of course a lot of stuff depends on that.
>>
>> But yes, you can't remove mysql-server without removing KDE.
>
> This is madness. The dependencies pull in mysql server, but yet its not
> chkconfig'ed to actually run. So what gives? Why force a new server to
> install on a stable release? And then after forcing it onto people's
> machines, its not even used?

If you install mysql-server standalone, is it chkconfig'ed to actually run? No.
Is mysql-server a new *package*? Obviously, No.
It's not *forced*, it's *dep'd*. Dep's happen.

> Changes like this belong on rawhide, not F-9 stable.

I disagree. I use KDE daily. KDE is well tested and support outside
Fedora. I was happy to see this update.

jerry