Globe Trotter wrote:
I thought I provided a very specific list of dependencies as an
example.
It might be helpful if someone showed you how dependencies are
generated, because I don't think you understand. It's not accidental on
the part of the package maintainer.
$ rpm -q --requires firefox | awk '!/rpmlib/ {print $1}' | \
while read req ; do rpm -q --whatprovides "$req" ; done | sort | uniq
... or leave off all of the processing, "rpm -q --requires firefox"
In that list, you'll see gnome-vfs2. When the firefox package was
built, rpm did something very much like:
$ rpm -ql firefox | \
while read file ; do test -f $file -a -x $file && ldd $file ; done \
| awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq
You'll see libgnomevfs-2.so.0 in the list. So, while you might be able
to remove the gnome desktop and applications and still have firefox, you
cannot remove "gnome-vfs2", which you tried to do when you did "yum
erase gnome*"
Does it make sense now?
Of course, but sometimes, dependencies are included in error, as in
the R example.
R requires cairo. Since I'm not sure what release you saw this on, I
don't know if cairo depended on some gnome package or if something else
was going on.
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