On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 13:41 +0100, David Nielsen wrote: > I can confirm this, however I wonder why this sort of thing even happens > - it would make sense to me if a package which nothing depended on would > get accidently removed, but I would think that the buildsystem would > throw up warnings when you remove something that is needed. > The functionality of hotplug is no longer needed. However some packages were compiled against it in the past. Currently our internal tool for removing a package from a distro does not do a depcheck to see if anything requires it. It just isn't that smart. Good news though, we're rewriting these tools so that the next gen could be this smart. (; -- Jesse Keating RHCE (geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedoralegacy.org) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub)
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