On 10/30/2004 09:19:00 PM, Robert L Cochran wrote:
I know the frustration and the feeling! Some months ago I tried to
uninstall a small number of web server-related components that came
with Fedora Core 2 and it was heck because of a seemingly endless
chain of package dependencies. All I wanted to do was to get rid of a
small set of packages. I resorted to rebuilding at least one package
where I removed the dependency from it, then installed it as an
upgrade. That in turn let me rpm -e a bunch of packages. Not pretty,
but it gave me what I wanted. With some packages a little more
thought needs to go into deciding what the dependencies really ought
to be.
I agree. Often this can be done through sub packages.
I don't use any qt apps.
But because gstreamer-plugins includes an arts plugin, arts is required
which in turn requires qt.
Not as big of a dependency issue but still - simply making a gstreamer-
plugins-arts package would mean it would be possible to install a
system without qt.