Am 12.10.2013 22:00, schrieb P J P: >> On Sunday, 13 October 2013 12:50 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> there is no if and but if a package has a dependency than it has one - period > > Sure, it has dependency. That does not make it an _absolutely_ requirement to have a functional system. *bullshit* you have no clue what the result of a specific broken dependency would be nor have yum, dnf or even god > Because the dependency relationship could be broken. We already agreed on that, no? *fix the package* and *not* the messenger > Ex. I try to remove package bluez, and yum prompts me to remove gnome-shell, gthumb, xchat and several other unrelated useful packages. *fix the package* and *not* the messenger > Does that mean gnome-shell, xchat & gthumb can not function without package bluez? most likely in case they call libraries > No says who? in case of bluez it maybe does not make troubles and the dependency should be "bluez-libs" and if a package links to /usr/lib64/libbluetooth.so.3 and yum would allow you to remove it the app would *crash* > It means dependency relationship is broken there are no soft dependencies in RPM the whole topic is useless and misguided *yum and whatever package managmement* are *not* repsponsible for wrong dependencies and since there are no soft-dpendencies in RPM implemented the only thing which is broken is the package pull braindead cross-deps
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