Dependency loops considered harmful?

[Miroslav Lichvar]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 07:39:38PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Actually its more about the removal scenario, lets say someone does:
> df
> yum install vegastrike    (drags in vegastrike-data)
> df                        (who thats big)
> <play vegastrike>         (hey that games sucks and eats up my HD-space)
> yum remove vegastrike
> df                        (WTF, why am I still missing 0.4 Gigs of HD-space ??)

But that isn't much different from a case when I install any package
with rich dependencies, say, gnome-session and after removing the
package there will be dozens of packages left I didn't want.

Actually, the loop may cause that I won't remove the game, because I
forgot I've installed it and it doesn't show up as a leaf.

Until yum or rpm is able to track packages installed only to satisfy
dependencies, this will always be a problem. Why make the game data a
special case?

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Miroslav Lichvar