Re: Is yum dependency resolution upside down?

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On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Remember that what I wanted was to remove "Dial-up Networking Support" - it is
>> not expected that this operation should remove all Networking!
>
> Then what is it supposed to do instead?
>
> "yum groupinfo 'Dial-up Networking Support'" tells that "ppp" is a
> Mandatory Package in that group. If you wanted to remove ppp, you would
> need to remove everything that requires ppp. Do you understand that?

I agree that if I explicitly ask to remove ppp then yum is supposed to
remove dependencies.

What I don't understand is how naive the group commands are working.

If ppp is a member of two groups then it shouldn't be removed until both
groups are removed, no?

And for the other example :

> Not right. At least the font packages you've mentioned are part of
> that group:
>
> $ yum groupinfo 'Electronic Lab'|grep font
>   xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi
>   xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi
>   xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-9-100dpi
>   xorg-x11-fonts-Type1

Please don't tell me that having "fonts" as default packages in the
"Electronic Lab" makes sense - if a package in the "Electronic Lab"
group need fonts then that dependency should be handled in the
*package* dependency and not as group members.
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