Progress and advice so far

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 17:20:08 +0200, RH (Reindl) wrote:

> 
> 
> Am 20.08.2011 17:16, schrieb Michael Schwendt:
> > On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:58:58 -0700, CW (Craig) wrote:
> >
> >> # rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/which
> >> which-2.19-5.fc12.i686
> >>
> >> # yum remove which
> >> << snip >>
> >> Remove      356 Package(s)
> >>
> >> Installed size: 2.1 G
> >> Is this ok [y/N]: n
> >> Exiting on user Command
> >> Complete!
> >>
> >> almost impossible to not have installed since just about the whole
> >> system depends upon 'which' package.
> > Indirectly only. It's not many packages that require which.
> > On Fedora 15:
> 
> why should anybody who knows what he is doing remove "which"?

Dunno. You've come up with that idea. ;)

Parts of this thread claimed that a minimal install was missing "which",
and all I added was the repoquery to show that only 21 packages depend
on it. And only 1 out of 21 depend on /usr/bin/which.
Package "which" is in the base comps group as well as the minimal
buildroot, but based on dependencies, it seems possible to remove it:

# rpm -e which
error: Failed dependencies:
	which is needed by (installed) gstreamer-tools-0.10.34-1.fc15.x86_64
	which is needed by (installed) vim-enhanced-2:7.3.138-1.fc15.x86_64
	which is needed by (installed) fuse-2.8.5-5.fc15.x86_64
	which is needed by (installed) xdg-utils-1.1.0-0.8.20110510.fc15.noarch