sean darcy wrote:
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 21:01 -0500, sean darcy wrote:
>> rpm -e xorg-x11-drv-voodoo-1.1.1-1.fc8
>> error: Failed dependencies:
>> xorg-x11-drv-voodoo is needed by (installed)
>> xorg-x11-drivers-7.2-9.fc8.i386
> xorg-x11-drivers has been a metapackage with nothing dependent on it for
> a very, very long time. Feel free to erase it.
>
>
rpm -e xorg-x11-drv-voodoo
error: Failed dependencies:
xorg-x11-drv-voodoo is needed by (installed)
xorg-x11-drivers-7.3-2.fc9.i386
which means that if I did erase it with -nodeps, yum would just drag it
back in with any update.
Perhaps the answer is the xorg-x11-drivers should not depend on the
individual drivers, but only have the individual drivers depend on
xor-x11-drivers.
why would the individual drivers depend on the xorg-x11-drivers
metapackage, which provides no functionality other than to create
dependencies in the other direction?
You can rpm -e xorg-x11-drivers, then you can easily remove any other
specific xorg drivers you don't need.
$ rpm -q --whatrequires xorg-x11-drivers
no package requires xorg-x11-drivers
What was the point of the metapackage, originally? To install ALL
drivers at install time and let firstboot sort it out?
-Eric