On 15. 10. 2013 at 04:33:08, P J P wrote: > > On Monday, 14 October 2013 8:05 PM, Eric H. Christensen > > <sparks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I believe he is assuming that xchat has > > a direct relationship with bluez which, I'm guessing here as I haven't > > checked, probably isn't the case. Because bluez affects something that > > xchat depends on xchat is getting thrown into the pile of things that > > will break without bluez. Dependencies aren't always 1:1... > > Yes, I understand that Xchat is not directly dependent on bluez; It is > being a victim of associative dependency, something like > > bluez <= gnome-bluetooth(libgnome-bluetooth-applet.so.0) <= gnome-shell <= > libnotify.so.4 <= xchat > > > My original question was if this is due to a packaging error or if yum's > dependency resolving algorithm is at fault. Because with > remove_leaf_only=1, if you try to remove individual packages, > > # yum remove bluez, > # yum remove gnome-bluetooth > # yum remove pulseaudio-module-bluetooth > > None of them work. But if you try to remove all 3 together > > # yum remove gnome-bluetooh bluez pulseaudio-module-bluetooth > > Yum prompts you to remove bluez -> > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-October/190101.html Yum's behavior is absolutely correct, it even reports you reasons why it doesn't uninstall individual packages (in general none of them is a leaf package). In this particular case the problem is also the circular dependency between bluez and gnome-bluetooth [1]. At this point I'm not sure about pulseaudio- module-bluetooth but I suspect something similar going on there. Even though yum might handle the resolution a little better (and dnf probably will do that, feel free to check it), the ultimate culprit here is a very poor packaging and both dnf and yum have only a limited set of options what to do in such cases. Usually both do the right thing, as yum did in this case. Thanks Jan [1] $ repoquery --whatrequires gnome-bluetooth | grep bluez | tail -n 1 bluez-0:4.101-9.fc19.x86_64 $ repoquery --whatrequires bluez | grep gnome-bluetooth | tail -n 1 gnome-bluetooth-1:3.8.2.1-1.fc19.x86_64 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
