On 5 August 2013 08:29, lee <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> My guess is that Lee probably tried to do something like "yum remove >> avahi*" which wanted to remove both the daemon and the library, and >> then started complaining endlessly about the daemon. He never even >> provided the yum output that he was complaining about. > > No I didn't, I only tried to remove avahi. I posted the output, and the > message was held back for moderation because it was over 60kB. After > quite a while, it was denied by a moderator. > >> I see no further point in discussing this thread. The avahi service is >> not a dependency on anything serious and you can safely remove it if >> you don't want to use it. > > Only over 200 packages depend on it, and you take the system down when > removing avahi. Good to know that this is nothing serious. > >> If Lee still sees a dependency problem, he'd better provide the output >> of yum demonstrating it, along with the command he used to invoke yum. > > The problem is still there, not only with avahi, and it is a design > flaw, starting with yum not even supporting suggestions. > It's not a design flaw in yum, it's a bug in the F19 avahi package apparently, as described by Lars Pettersson elsewhere in this thread. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=913168 the solution is fixing the avahi package, not modifying yum to ingore dependencies. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- 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
