Dependency loops considered harmful?

Callum Lerwick seg at haxxed.com
Thu Sep 4 20:36:12 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 13:07 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> [badger at Clingman tmp]$ sudo ./remove-recurse.py yum
> [...]
> removing pygpgme-0.1-8.fc9.i386 b/c it is not required by anything else
> removing python-iniparse-0.2.3-3.fc9.noarch b/c it is not required by
> anything else

Using yum to remove yum? Talk about grasping for straw men.

Can we argue realistic scenarios, please?

> As it turns out, I personally need both of these deps.  I have a script
> in ~/bin/ that uses pygpgme.  I also am working on fas in a local
> checkout which requires pygpgme.  And I'm evaluating python-iniparse and
> python-configobj to see which one I'm going to be using for some fedora
> infrastructure scripts.

So pay attention to what you're doing and don't carelessly remove core
tools.
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