Dependency Hell[F7-x86_64]

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat Jul 7 07:37:01 UTC 2007


Sean Bruno wrote:
> I was going to rip NetworkManager out of my machine just now, and yum
> went in and found some really nifty dependencies that made me sit up and
> take notice.  I can't believe that pidgin and evolution really use NM
> libs.  Is this for real?
> 
> [sean at home-desk ~]$ sudo yum -y remove 'NetworkManager*'

Try

# yum remove NetworkManager and avoid using -y if you don't know the 
dependency set.

Pidgin and Evolution depends on NetworkManager-glib to check network 
connectivity and automatically go offline and things like that.

Rahul




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