Am 10.08.2015 um 18:42 schrieb Gerald B. Cox:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl(a)thelounge.net
<mailto:h.reindl@thelounge.net>> wrote:
how do you come to that conclusion?
there are many applications installed by default and you can just
remove them as long there are no dependencies - why should add
Firefox to the default setup have a different handling from the
viewpoint of the package manager?
Harald, I haven't come to any conclusion... that's why I asked the
question... I don't know.
I've installed programs in the past and then when I've tried to delete
them, they also try to delete another 100 or so packages
that weren't installed when I installed that program
that's not how dependencies work, really!
you may have installed other packages in the meantime sharing some deps
where a part of them was already pulled by the program you have
installed and uninstall *then* would remove both and all shared
dependencies in the chain
rpm dependencies are really straight forwarded
otherwise that below would not be possible on a machine installed 2011
with Fedora 13 after 8 dist-upgrades
[root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ rpm -qa | wc -l
1535
[root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ rpm -qa | grep kde | wc -l
45