On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 16:21:55 +0200 lee <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 00:58:24 +0200 > > lee <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hmm I disabled it now and will see what happens. There are 224 > >> packages depending on the avahi package --- that's insane for > >> something that isn't needed. > >> > >> Why are there so many packages depending on it? > > > > Not on my system (F18/64bit/KDE), there are only 22 of them > > depending on avahi, and most of them are just wine-related. If I > > didn't need wine or nss-mdns, I could remove it no problem: > > > > So it's just nss-mdns and wine & friends. > > It would even remove imagemagick, emacs, vlc, ddd, fvwm, the NVIDIA > drivers and a lot of other packages I need. Ok, for your convenience, I have uninstalled avahi (temporarily) from my machine (remember, this is F18 over here). Here you go: [root@Yoda ~]# yum list avahi imagemagick emacs vlc ddd fvwm Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto Installed Packages ImageMagick.x86_64 6.7.7.5-3.fc18 @fedora ddd.x86_64 3.3.12-11.fc18 @fedora emacs.x86_64 1:24.2-19.fc18 @updates fvwm.x86_64 2.6.5-3.fc18 @fedora vlc.x86_64 2.0.7-1.fc18 @rpmfusion-free-updates Available Packages ImageMagick.i686 6.7.7.5-3.fc18 fedora avahi.i686 0.6.31-6.fc18 fedora avahi.x86_64 0.6.31-6.fc18 fedora [root@Yoda ~]# uname -a Linux Yoda 3.9.11-200.fc18.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 22 21:04:50 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux As you can see, none of the packages you have mentioned actually depends on avahi. Also, I have Intel graphics here so it doesn't make much sense to try to install nvidia drivers, but I can bet that they do not depend on avahi either. > > OTOH, if you are running, say, Gnome3 or such, then you should ask > > the relevant developers on the relevant mailing list why oh why do > > they depend on avahi so much. ;-) > > I don't --- I could ask on the fvwm mailing list if fvwm needs avahi, > and I bet it doesn't. > > Perhaps yum has messed up the dependencies? What appears to be happening in your case is that avahi is needed by the Gnome3 desktop environment, maybe even by gdm login manager. Removing avahi then probably removes the whole Gnome stuff along, leaving the machine without a DE and without a login manager. And then it probably turns out that the packages you have mentioned depend on the presence of some DE on the system (vlc being a typical example). Given that DE would be removed, most of that GUI stuff would go with it. That's my guess-theory. If you care to provide the actual yum output for "yum remove avahi", someone might figure it out more precisely than that. Or it might be that F19 has some weird changes introduced compared to F18. But I guess it would be mentioned in the release notes or somewhere... HTH, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
