Re: [CentOS] mdadm exim mysql

On 10/15/07, Johnn Tan linuxweb@gmail.com wrote:

I installed a CentOS-5 core OS (using --nobase in my kickstart).

For some reason, it included mysql-5.0.22.

When I do "yum remove mysql", it says it will also remove exim and mdadm for dependencies.

I don't care that exim will be removed, but I need mdadm as I'm doing software RAID.

But why are these even related? When I do: rpm -q --requires mysql neither exim or mdadm is listed as being a requirement.

This is an odd dep chain. It would seem that exim requires mysql for some odd reason. mdadm doesn't, but does require that the system have an smtp-daemon, which is a dep satisfied by exim, postfix, or sendmail.

mostly, install sendmail or postfix, and you can then remove exim and mysql without fear.