On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > > where is this dependency from? >From the explicit Requires(pre) in the kernel-core RPM. > after confirm you can happily "yum remove linux-firmware" without > any problems and the next kernel update pulls it again which is > not how a normal dependency works because it would not allow > to uninstall the dependency without remove the pulling package That's why it's Requires(pre). > hence why i have on our virtualized infrastructure for years a empty > meta-package with provides/obsoletes but given now that we have > "kernel-core" and "kernel-drivers" this dependecy should be only pulled > only by "kernel-drivers" No. The kernel-core package contains drivers that require firmware in linux-firmware. I'm not dropping that dependency. Your existing solution should continue to work. josh _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
