Is yum dependency resolution upside down?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:44:45 -0700, JZ wrote:

> On 06/13/2011 01:19 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > There you're pretty much off-topic. ;-)
> 
> Not quite.  My thinking is that if it comes in with the rest of 
> Networking, there's a reason, even if I don't know what it is.  For all 
> I know it might simply be that that's how it was set up back when most 
> people only had dial-up service and that nobody's bothered to change it 
> because it doesn't take up enough room to worry about.  And, if so, that 
> might explain why taking it out takes our the rest of Network Services: 
> nobody's thought to take a look at it and see if that still makes sense.

Now you only repeat [albeit with many words] what has been explained
before. Do I need to repeat that package "ppp" is a dependency of
NetworkManager and that by removing "ppp" you need to remove
NetworkManager, too?

$ repoquery --whatrequires ppp
ppp-0:2.4.5-17.fc15.x86_64
NetworkManager-1:0.8.999-2.git20110509.fc15.x86_64
NetworkManager-1:0.8.9997-2.git20110531.fc15.x86_64
NetworkManager-pptp-1:0.8.999-1.fc15.x86_64
bluemodem-0:0.7-6.fc15.x86_64
kdenetwork-7:4.6.2-2.fc15.x86_64
kdenetwork-7:4.6.3-1.fc15.x86_64
ppp-0:2.4.5-17.fc15.x86_64
pptp-0:1.7.2-12.fc15.x86_64
rp-pppoe-0:3.10-8.fc15.x86_64
synce-serial-0:0.11-5.fc15.x86_64
wvdial-0:1.61-4.fc15.x86_64
xfce4-modemlights-plugin-0:0.1.3.99-7.fc15.x86_64
xl2tpd-0:1.2.7-3.fc15.x86_64