Is yum dependency resolution upside down?

[Joe Zeff]

On 06/13/2011 02:18 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> That's a "feature" of dependency analysis: NetworkManager expects to be
> able to control ppp connections.  In order to do that, it needs ppp. So
> if you remove ppp, NetworkManager thinks it is itself broken.  But if
> you never intend to use NetworkManager to control ppp connections, it
> would seem that you could install NetworkManager without installing ppp.
> It would never break if you never ask it to do that.

Thank you; asked and answered.  I'd prefer to have Network Services be a 
dependency of ppp rather than the other way around, but as we both point 
out, the space involved is trivial.