[CentOS] Yum: strange dependencies

Thu Feb 4 10:41:28 UTC 2010
Wahyu Darmawan <wahyu.darmawan at gmail.com>

I mean have you used 'exclude' to exclude yum dependencies packages before?

Salam,


On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Wahyu Darmawan <wahyu.darmawan at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Fajar Priyanto <fajarpri at arinet.org>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> On Centos 5.4 minimum installation, I tried to install these packages
>> (notice the dependencies):
>>
>> ===================================================================================================================
>>  Package                      Arch              Version
>>                 Repository            Size
>>
>> ===================================================================================================================
>> Installing:
>>  mc                           i386              1:4.6.1a-35.el5
>>                 base                 2.1 M
>>  mdadm                        i386              2.6.9-2.el5
>>                 base                 827 k
>>  ntp                          i386
>> 4.2.2p1-9.el5.centos.2.1                updates              1.3 M
>>  sudo                         i386              1.6.9p17-5.el5
>>                 base                 218 k
>> Installing for dependencies:
>>  exim                         i386              4.63-3.el5
>>                 base                 1.2 M
>>  mysql                        i386              5.0.77-4.el5_4.1
>>                 updates              4.8 M
>>  perl                         i386              4:5.8.8-27.el5
>>                 base                  12 M
>>  perl-DBI                     i386              1.52-2.el5
>>                 base                 600 k
>>  postgresql-libs              i386              8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
>>                 updates              196 k
>>
>> Transaction Summary
>>
>> ===================================================================================================================
>> Install      9 Package(s)
>> Update       0 Package(s)
>> Remove       0 Package(s)
>>
>> Total download size: 23 M
>>
>> I didn't want all those dependencies, especially exim and mysql. So,
>> instead of installing mc, mdadm, ntp, and sudo at the same time, I
>> installed them one by one and this time no exim and mysql (mc still
>> wanted perl, fine) dependencies. Any thought why was that? Thank you.
>> _______________________________________________
>>
>
> Sorry mas Fajar,
> Can you use 'exclude' for yum command?
>
> Salam,
>
>
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