On 5 August 2013 08:29, lee <lee(a)yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko(a)gmail.com> writes:
> My guess is that Lee probably tried to do something like "yum remove
> avahi*" which wanted to remove both the daemon and the library, and
> then started complaining endlessly about the daemon. He never even
> provided the yum output that he was complaining about.
No I didn't, I only tried to remove avahi. I posted the output, and the
message was held back for moderation because it was over 60kB. After
quite a while, it was denied by a moderator.
> I see no further point in discussing this thread. The avahi service is
> not a dependency on anything serious and you can safely remove it if
> you don't want to use it.
Only over 200 packages depend on it, and you take the system down when
removing avahi. Good to know that this is nothing serious.
> If Lee still sees a dependency problem, he'd better provide the output
> of yum demonstrating it, along with the command he used to invoke yum.
The problem is still there, not only with avahi, and it is a design
flaw, starting with yum not even supporting suggestions.
It's not a design flaw in yum, it's a bug in the F19 avahi package
apparently, as described by Lars Pettersson elsewhere in this thread.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=913168 the solution is
fixing the avahi package, not modifying yum to ingore dependencies.
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