On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 12:28 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: > On 10/15/07, Johnn Tan <linuxweb at 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. > FYI - Exim requires a database to store various bits of information relating to email message reception. The exim RPM has been built such that mysql is required - although Exim can use CDB, DB4, postgresql (I think) and so on. John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: John.Horne at plymouth.ac.uk Fax: +44 (0)1752 233839