Am 12.10.2013 22:00, schrieb P J P:
> On Sunday, 13 October 2013 12:50 AM, Reindl Harald
<h.reindl(a)thelounge.net> wrote:
> there is no if and but if a package has a dependency than it has one - period
Sure, it has dependency. That does not make it an _absolutely_ requirement to have a
functional system.
*bullshit* you have no clue what the result of a specific broken
dependency would be nor have yum, dnf or even god
Because the dependency relationship could be broken. We already
agreed on that, no?
*fix the package* and *not* the messenger
Ex. I try to remove package bluez, and yum prompts me to remove
gnome-shell, gthumb, xchat and several other unrelated useful packages.
*fix the package* and *not* the messenger
Does that mean gnome-shell, xchat & gthumb can not function
without package bluez?
most likely in case they call libraries
No
says who?
in case of bluez it maybe does not make troubles and the dependency should
be "bluez-libs" and if a package links to /usr/lib64/libbluetooth.so.3 and
yum would allow you to remove it the app would *crash*
It means dependency relationship is broken
there are no soft dependencies in RPM
the whole topic is useless and misguided
*yum and whatever package managmement* are *not* repsponsible for wrong
dependencies and since there are no soft-dpendencies in RPM implemented
the only thing which is broken is the package pull braindead cross-deps