surely an ordinary package shouldn't depend on devel packages?
Tim
ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Tue Jun 3 13:02:20 UTC 2008
Hi,
While looking through the updates mail, I saw something that sounded
intriguing, "hamster-applet." Did a yum info query on it, then thought
I'd install it to have a look. But it wanted to drag in a ridiculous
number of dependencies, most of them devel packages.
Surely a precompiled non-devel RPM shouldn't be dragging in development
packages? That's got to be a major design screw up. Doesn't
incorporating a package into a repo involve some sort of checking
procedure to reject packages trying to do that sort of nonsense?
(Non-devel packages depending on devel packages.)
yum install hamster-applet
...[snip]...
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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Installing:
hamster-applet i386 0.4-1.fc9 updates 133 k
Installing for dependencies:
GConf2-devel i386 2.22.0-1.fc9 fedora 103 k
ORBit2-devel i386 2.14.12-3.fc9 fedora 187 k
alsa-lib-devel i386 1.0.16-3.fc9 fedora 963 k
audiofile-devel i386 1:0.2.6-8.fc9 fedora 16 k
autoconf noarch 2.61-10.fc9 fedora 800 k
automake noarch 1.10.1-2 fedora 532 k
dbus-devel i386 1.2.1-1.fc9 fedora 41 k
dbus-glib-devel i386 0.74-6.fc9 fedora 40 k
docbook-dtds noarch 1.0-35.fc9 fedora 815 k
docbook-style-dsssl noarch 1.79-5.fc9 fedora 317 k
docbook-style-xsl noarch 1.73.2-9.fc9 fedora 2.9 M
docbook-utils noarch 0.6.14-13.fc9 fedora 67 k
esound-devel i386 1:0.2.38-7.fc9 fedora 18 k
evolution-data-server-devel i386 2.22.1-2.fc9 fedora 276 k
evolution-data-server-doc i386 2.22.1-2.fc9 fedora 515 k
glib2-devel i386 2.16.3-5.fc9 fedora 1.2 M
gnome-python2-evolution i386 2.22.0-2.fc9 fedora 36 k
gnome-vfs2-devel i386 2.22.0-1.fc9 fedora 260 k
gnutls-devel i386 2.0.4-3.fc9 updates 1.3 M
gtk-doc noarch 1.9-4.fc9 fedora 132 k
hal-devel i386 0.5.11-1.fc9 updates 32 k
imake i386 1.0.2-6.fc9 fedora 313 k
indent i386 2.2.10-1.fc9 fedora 116 k
libIDL-devel i386 0.8.10-2.fc9 fedora 19 k
libbonobo-devel i386 2.22.0-2.fc9 fedora 509 k
libgcrypt-devel i386 1.4.0-3 fedora 87 k
libgnome-devel i386 2.22.0-3.fc9 fedora 84 k
libgpg-error-devel i386 1.6-2 fedora 12 k
libsoup-devel i386 2.4.1-1.fc9 fedora 158 k
libxml2-devel i386 2.6.32-2.fc9 updates 2.2 M
libxslt-devel i386 1.1.24-1.fc9 updates 329 k
openjade i386 1.3.2-31.fc9 fedora 986 k
opensp i386 1.5.2-7.fc9 fedora 1.1 M
perl-SGMLSpm noarch 1.03ii-18.fc9 fedora 25 k
popt-devel i386 1.13-3.fc9 fedora 395 k
python-sqlite2 i386 1:2.3.3-3.fc9 fedora 82 k
sgml-common noarch 0.6.3-23.fc9 fedora 43 k
zlib-devel i386 1.2.3-18.fc9 fedora 42 k
Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 39 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 17 M
Is this ok [y/N]: n
Exiting on user Command
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[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686
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