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.
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