Stupid dependencies.. ?

[Michael DeHaan]

Hajducko, Steven wrote:
> Is there a place to suggest better dependencies for future builds of 
> RH? I'm not sure which list / bug tracking system I should be putting 
> this into.
>
I would suggest bugging your support guys.

> For example,
>  
> the core group lists authconfig as a mandatory package.
>  
> authconfig requires rhpl, a package that contains python code used by 
> other programs.

Lots of things, including rhn register (IIRC) use rhpl, so that's 
reasonable.   It also contains some translation code.
>  
> rhpl requires wireless-tools.
>
Not sure why that is, but that seems busted.   That being said, there 
may be a good reason for it and perhaps someone
with more experience with rhpl can explain why.

> It was not this way in RH4.  authconfig was part of core, but the RHPL 
> package was not required by it, nor did the RHPL package require 
> wireless-tools.
>  
> So in essence, every server I install into my datacenter with RH5 is 
> going to have the wireless-tools package, a completely arbitrary and 
> unnecessary package, unless I uninstall authconfig, rhpl and 
> wireless-tools in the %post.
>  
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