Yum dependency resolving & remove_leaf_only

[P J P]

> On Monday, 14 October 2013 8:05 PM, Eric H. Christensen <sparks at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> I believe he is assuming that xchat has a direct relationship with bluez which, 
> I'm guessing here as I haven't checked, probably isn't the case.  
> Because bluez affects something that xchat depends on xchat is getting thrown 
> into the pile of things that will break without bluez.  Dependencies aren't 
> always 1:1...

   Yes, I understand that Xchat is not directly dependent on bluez; It is being a victim of associative dependency, something like

bluez <= gnome-bluetooth(libgnome-bluetooth-applet.so.0) <= gnome-shell <= libnotify.so.4 <= xchat


My original question was if this is due to a packaging error  or  if yum's dependency resolving algorithm is at fault. Because with remove_leaf_only=1, if you try to remove individual packages,

    # yum remove bluez,
    # yum remove gnome-bluetooth
    # yum remove pulseaudio-module-bluetooth

None of  them work. But if you try to remove all 3 together

    # yum remove gnome-bluetooh bluez pulseaudio-module-bluetooth

Yum prompts you to remove bluez  -> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-October/190101.html
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