Hi, While looking through the updates mail, I saw something that sounded intriguing, "hamster-applet." Did a yum info query on it, then thought I'd install it to have a look. But it wanted to drag in a ridiculous number of dependencies, most of them devel packages. Surely a precompiled non-devel RPM shouldn't be dragging in development packages? That's got to be a major design screw up. Doesn't incorporating a package into a repo involve some sort of checking procedure to reject packages trying to do that sort of nonsense? (Non-devel packages depending on devel packages.) yum install hamster-applet ...[snip]... ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: hamster-applet i386 0.4-1.fc9 updates 133 k Installing for dependencies: GConf2-devel i386 2.22.0-1.fc9 fedora 103 k ORBit2-devel i386 2.14.12-3.fc9 fedora 187 k alsa-lib-devel i386 1.0.16-3.fc9 fedora 963 k audiofile-devel i386 1:0.2.6-8.fc9 fedora 16 k autoconf noarch 2.61-10.fc9 fedora 800 k automake noarch 1.10.1-2 fedora 532 k dbus-devel i386 1.2.1-1.fc9 fedora 41 k dbus-glib-devel i386 0.74-6.fc9 fedora 40 k docbook-dtds noarch 1.0-35.fc9 fedora 815 k docbook-style-dsssl noarch 1.79-5.fc9 fedora 317 k docbook-style-xsl noarch 1.73.2-9.fc9 fedora 2.9 M docbook-utils noarch 0.6.14-13.fc9 fedora 67 k esound-devel i386 1:0.2.38-7.fc9 fedora 18 k evolution-data-server-devel i386 2.22.1-2.fc9 fedora 276 k evolution-data-server-doc i386 2.22.1-2.fc9 fedora 515 k glib2-devel i386 2.16.3-5.fc9 fedora 1.2 M gnome-python2-evolution i386 2.22.0-2.fc9 fedora 36 k gnome-vfs2-devel i386 2.22.0-1.fc9 fedora 260 k gnutls-devel i386 2.0.4-3.fc9 updates 1.3 M gtk-doc noarch 1.9-4.fc9 fedora 132 k hal-devel i386 0.5.11-1.fc9 updates 32 k imake i386 1.0.2-6.fc9 fedora 313 k indent i386 2.2.10-1.fc9 fedora 116 k libIDL-devel i386 0.8.10-2.fc9 fedora 19 k libbonobo-devel i386 2.22.0-2.fc9 fedora 509 k libgcrypt-devel i386 1.4.0-3 fedora 87 k libgnome-devel i386 2.22.0-3.fc9 fedora 84 k libgpg-error-devel i386 1.6-2 fedora 12 k libsoup-devel i386 2.4.1-1.fc9 fedora 158 k libxml2-devel i386 2.6.32-2.fc9 updates 2.2 M libxslt-devel i386 1.1.24-1.fc9 updates 329 k openjade i386 1.3.2-31.fc9 fedora 986 k opensp i386 1.5.2-7.fc9 fedora 1.1 M perl-SGMLSpm noarch 1.03ii-18.fc9 fedora 25 k popt-devel i386 1.13-3.fc9 fedora 395 k python-sqlite2 i386 1:2.3.3-3.fc9 fedora 82 k sgml-common noarch 0.6.3-23.fc9 fedora 43 k zlib-devel i386 1.2.3-18.fc9 fedora 42 k Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 39 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 17 M Is this ok [y/N]: n Exiting on user Command -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
