On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Feizhou wrote: >> If you go to the start of this thread, I said: >> >> I'm trying to build all the SRPMS from >> http://www.linux911.cl/GFS-CENTOS4/, and have found a real dependency >> mess, including some circular dependencies. >> > ...that is hardly an authoritative source for RedHat source rpms... Not authoritative, but it's clear that the SRPMS were build directly from RedHat CVS. > You've been barking up the wrong tree trying to build from a different set of > source rpms that is obviously NOT provided by RedHat. I've suggested previously that you should check facts before casting aspersions. > Plus your really unique proposition that xxx-devel must not depend on > xxx whereas the all Linux distributions do just that ... Having xxx-devel depend on xxx is not even consistent within RHEL4. See, e.g. kudzu and kudzu-devel. Rather than attack me personally, or appeal to authority, perhaps you could consider whether a "dependency" is logical or not. But never mind, please just let this issue lie. --- Charlie