At Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:36:19 +0200 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Any ideas why there is such a dependency hell? > It's a server host, I don't need any GTK stuff etc. It is an unfortunate 'feature' of trying (on some level) to be MS-Windows-ish: providing a GUI interface (of sorts) to openssh. 'openssh-askpass' is a GUI thinging for asking for a password for slogin/ssh/scp/etc. If you don't need openssh-askpass, then you should not install it. You can either edit your yum.conf file to exclude it or instead of: > > > yum install openssh-* do: yum install openssh openssh-clients openssh-server openssl > > output: > --------- > > Dependencies Resolved > > ============================================================================= > Package Arch Version Repository Size > ============================================================================= > Installing: > openssh-askpass i386 4.3p2-36.el5 updates 39 k > Updating: > openssh i386 4.3p2-36.el5 updates 286 k > openssh-clients i386 4.3p2-36.el5 updates 447 k > openssh-server i386 4.3p2-36.el5 updates 268 k > openssl i686 0.9.8e-12.el5 updates 1.4 M > Installing for dependencies: > atk i386 1.12.2-1.fc6 base 222 k > cairo i386 1.2.4-5.el5 base 394 k > cups-libs i386 1:1.3.7-8.el5_3.6 updates 193 k > fipscheck i386 1.0.3-1.el5 base 11 k > fontconfig i386 2.4.1-7.el5 base 174 k > freetype i386 2.2.1-21.el5_3 updates 310 k > gnutls i386 1.4.1-3.el5_3.5 updates 348 k > gtk2 i386 2.10.4-20.el5 base 6.5 M > hicolor-icon-theme noarch 0.9-2.1 base 25 k > libX11 i386 1.0.3-9.el5 base 795 k > libXau i386 1.0.1-3.1 base 18 k > libXcursor i386 1.1.7-1.1 base 32 k > libXdmcp i386 1.0.1-2.1 base 19 k > libXext i386 1.0.1-2.1 base 35 k > libXfixes i386 4.0.1-2.1 base 14 k > libXft i386 2.1.10-1.1 base 44 k > libXi i386 1.0.1-3.1 base 25 k > libXinerama i386 1.0.1-2.1 base 9.7 k > libXrandr i386 1.1.1-3.1 base 15 k > libXrender i386 0.9.1-3.1 base 27 k > libjpeg i386 6b-37 base 139 k > libpng i386 2:1.2.10-7.1.el5_3.2 updates 241 k > libtiff i386 3.8.2-7.el5_3.4 updates 306 k > pango i386 1.14.9-5.el5.centos updates 335 k > xorg-x11-filesystem noarch 7.1-2.fc6 base 5.4 k > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos