On 06/05/2011 07:46 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 06/04/2011 05:16 PM, H Xu wrote:
> I didn't use PackageKit when I was using Fedora 14. Now it seems that I
> can't uninstall PackageKit without uninstalling those packages. Is this
> a package bug? Thanks.
No. More software components now use PackageKit as a framework. If you
don't like the GUI, just remove gnome-packagekit and leave the
framework in place. repoquery is helpful in figuring out the base
dependencies.
There are some packages that are listed as dependencies by a large
number of others, sometimes for no apparent reason. As an example, try
removing evolution and see what some of the weird things ym wants to
take out along with it
Users do something like yum remove evolution\* and then get a huge list
of dependencies and wonder why. Common mistake. Evolution can be
removed just fine. If you are talking about evolution-data-server, it
is a generic calendar store that originated out of Evolution (hence the
name) but does not have a dependency on Evolution. It is a very small
package really.
Rahul