tor dependency insanity.

[Seth Vidal]

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On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, David Malcolm wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 12:37 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>> So after having heard the nth discussion about tor, I decided to check it out.
>> I tried installing it on a stripped down f12 box that has no X, or other stuff
>> unnecessary for routing network packets.
>>
>> What happened next has me lost for words.
>> Our dependency chains suck.
>>
>> 	Dave
>> (12:24:07:root at firewall:~)# yum install tor
>> Setting up Install Process
>> Resolving Dependencies
>> --> Running transaction check
>> ---> Package tor.i686 0:0.2.1.23-1200.fc12 set to be updated
>> --> Processing Dependency: tor-core = 0.2.1.23-1200.fc12 for package: tor-0.2.1.23-1200.fc12.i686
> (snip)
>
> Is it more confined if you just "yum install tor-core"?

not much:
tor-core requires init(tor)

  repoquery -q --whatprovides 'init(tor)'
tor-lsb-0:0.2.1.22-1200.fc12.noarch
tor-upstart-0:0.2.1.19-2.fc12.noarch
tor-lsb-0:0.2.1.19-2.fc12.noarch
tor-upstart-0:0.2.1.22-1200.fc12.noarch


tor-lsb is probably going to be pulled in first.
but if it isn't, then tor-upstart requires tor which is going to require 
tor-lsb.

yes - that's never going to end well.

-sv