Stupid dependencies.. ?

[Hajducko, Steven]

Yeah, the authconfig requiring rhpl does not bug me, as other things
require rhpl as well.  It's more that rhpl now requires wireless-tools
that irks me. wireless-tools strikes me as a really 'as-needed' package,
especially in the enterprise environment where many of the systems RHEL5
is being installed on have no wireless capability.


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> [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Michael DeHaan
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 1:42 PM
> To: Discussion list about Kickstart
> Subject: Re: Stupid dependencies.. ?
> 
> 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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