[CentOS] Re: Using Synaptic with Cent OS 4.4

[Kevan Benson]

On Monday 13 November 2006 22:44, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> I could tell you about a machine where I used yum to remove a
> file and it's dependencies, didn't pay attention to the file list, and
> it tried to remove glibc ... and I can duplicate that same problem in
> apt.  (A machine will break part of the way though removing glibc and it
> is not pretty :P)

Were you working with an extremely lean system?  I would imagine glibc being 
included in the removal list would trigger a whole slew of dependencies on 
it's own removal, causing the list of what's to be removed to be quite big 
(and therefore noticeable).  Or is it just assumed in most RPMs that glibc 
will exist?

I know from experience in trying to get an install to the minimal set of RPMs 
needed for an embedded system that the dependency list is a mess when you get 
to the core set of RPMs (the minimal install size listed in the install 
program is NOT the real minimum size for an install, many RPMs are included 
due to unneeded dependencies).

Any chance in getting the procedure for reproducing this?  It has piqued my 
interest.

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- Kevan Benson
- A-1 Networks