On 08/10/2008, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I was just trying to remove as many selinux related packages as possible > (a fedora 9 system) to avoid having to download their updates when I have > selinux turned off anyway. > > Several of the rpms I tried to erase want to drag all kinds of ridiculous > stuff with them, and I'm just sort of curious why. > > For example, attempting to erase policycoreutils results in this list: <snip> > > How on earth could texlive need a dependency on policycoreutils? All tex > does is > read files, process the data, and generate new files. If tools that do that > need > selinux, why doesn't everything else on the system depend on it? Not everything just: repoquery --qf=%{name} --whatrequires --alldeps policycoreutils|sort|uniq texlive uses restorecon :-( your only option is to rebuild without it if your handy with a spec file depends on how bad you need to purge selinux :-) I've completely ditched it from this kde-f9 box. ...dex -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines