On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 15:03:20 +0100, Henk Breimer wrote: > [net@pietro ~]$ yum remove libthai > Remove 266 Package(s) > > Is this ok [y/N]: > no, of course. > Remaining question: is this the way 'requires' should be used? You show that you don't understand the reason for this. This is a shared library that is linked with another system library: Pango. It results in an automatic 'Requires' on the libthai library SONAME in the pango package, since the library is required at run-time and isn't optional. $ repoquery --whatrequires libthai.so.0 libthai-0:0.1.9-4.fc9.i386 pango-0:1.20.4-1.fc9.i386 libthai-devel-0:0.1.9-4.fc9.i386 scim-thai-0:0.1.1-2.fc9.i386 pango-0:1.20.1-1.fc9.i386 Pango in turn is required by many a dozen packages. Removing Pango creates a long dependency chain of packages that would need to be removed, too. In case you want to remove a system library like LibThai, you would need to disable it in Pango -- or rewrite Pango to load the library as an optional plugin (that's likely harder). -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
