On 2/28/07, Jay Lee <jlee at pbu.edu> wrote: > Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at > 02:39:57AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 00:48 +0100, Michael Gabriel wrote: > trying a yum update on mysql, postgres or php forces the others to install. > is that really wanted ?? > Here is some testing on a system with nothing else > installed: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [root at i386 > ~]# yum --enablerepo=centosplus install php curl i386 7.12.1-8.rhel4 base > 231 k > Why would php need curl ? > Because it has a curl based library built in to the core: > > http://php.net/curl > > RedHat could have spun this off into a php-curl RPM package I guess but they > chose not to with php4 and I don't think php5 in RHEL5 will either... > They have been known to do this if someone sends them a bugzilla reprort with a patch for the spec file. Cheers...james