On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 08:53 -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > > If it's built against > > versions of shared libraries which are no longer present, then I believe > > the installer will have removed the old version of those libraries and > > will have left the package in question broken. > > Do you have evidence to back that up? Does anaconda somehow disable the > normal dependency checking? Normally, rpm would refuse to remove a > library that is still required by another installed RPM. anaconda does disable normal dep checking if it can't resolve something, that's true - however, it doesn't remove stuff. -sv