Beartooth wrote:
I have no PDA, nor expect ever to, much less hardware to connect
it to a PC.
When I was working, and literally running my life on rails, its
ancestors, then called organizers, were fine things; I had a whole series
of them.
Those who want or need them are welcome to them; strength to
their arms. Theirs, not mine. To an old retired fart without a schedule,
a PDA or even a fancy phone is a dispensable expense, and thus cruft at
best, if not a security liability. So I tried to cut.
[root@Hbsk2 ~]# yum remove bluez-*
[....]
Dependencies Resolved
================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository
Size
================================================================================
Removing:
bluez-libs i386 3.36-1.fc9 installed
126 k
bluez-utils-cups i386 3.36-1.fc9
installed 40 k
Removing for dependencies:
gnome-user-share i386 0.31-1.fc9 installed
219 k
gvfs i386 0.2.5-1.fc9 installed
3.5 M
gvfs-fuse i386 0.2.5-1.fc9
installed 25 k
libwiimote i386 0.4-6.fc9
installed 46 k
nautilus i386 2.22.5.1-1.fc9
installed 15 M
obex-data-server i386 1:0.3.4-1.fc9 installed
145 k
xorg-x11-drivers i386 7.3-4.fc9
installed 0.0
xorg-x11-drv-wiimote i386 0.0.1-1.fc9
installed 12 k
Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install 0 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 10 Package(s)
Is this ok [y/N]: n
Exiting on user Command
Some of those dependencies certainly make sense, and others look
likely to. Some of them. I grant that.
Some make mud seem clear. I don't understand, despite googling,
what gvfs is or does. I know only that it too threatened to take a long
list of indispensable apps with it if removed -- and that the gnome
system monitor always shows some half dozen of its creatures, sleeping.
But what of nautilus? It would be fine for bluez to depend on it;
but why should it depend on bluez?? Is someone going to tell me that
pango uses bluez, with or without hardware? And then sneer down his nose
that I'm welcome to write new code??
What ever became of linux being tailorable??
There's no need to be at the mercy of a package maintainer. Ever hear of
"rpm -e --nodeps <worthless-package>". Works most of the time for me.
And if it breaks, just reinstall the worthless-package.
Regards,
John
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