oleksandr korneta wrote:
is all this suppose to mean that there is no way for amarok rpm without the mysql dependence to appear (just because there is nothing special about that dependency), and I just can go ahead and install whatever is available for now?
Why not just grab the source RPM and modify the spec file to make sure Amarok is not built with the MySQL requirement (I'm guessing it's a configure flag, which you'll find in the spec) ?
Check out these links: [1] http://fedoranews.org/tchung/rpmbuild/ [2] http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/4/SRPMS/amarok-1.2...
1. rpmbuild quick starter. 2. Amarok source RPM.
You might have to install certain build-dependencies (-devel packages w/dependencies). These can easily be installed with yum.
And for a slightly more "political" reply, I think one should have a very large music collection to justify the need for MySQL when there is sqlite. But then again, it's only the client libs, in this case.
Øyvind