On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 14:46 -0500, Peter Horst wrote:
I just tried my first 'yum update'. The list of packages to
be updated
included 'gtk2' and 'mesa-libGL', but the system that I'm updating
was
installed without an X server. Aren't those graphics packages?
Do bear in mind that X applications can be used over the network and
don't need a local X server to be useful.
I am just curious as to why they would have been included during the
install process. My impression was that 'yum update' would only update
packages that are currently installed on the machine - is this correct?
PS I'm not an anti-GUI fanatic, I'm just curious :-)
A "yum update" might install them on a system that didn't already have
them if they're new dependencies for something you do already have
installed.
You can first of all see if they're currently installed:
$ rpm -q gtk2 mesa-libGL
If they are, you can check what package(s) requires them by asking yum
to remove them:
# yum remove gtk2 mesa-libGL
You probably won't want to actually remove these packages, so be sure
not to use "yum -y" and be careful to respond "N" when prompted
whether
to go ahead with the removal or not.
Paul.