Kudos to whomever worked on the synaptics touchpad driver !

[Satish Balay]

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:

> 
> And now that we've got the synaptics code team happy, can I bug y'all to
> PLEASE remove the dependency whereby rhpl requires synaptics?
> 
> Since up2date and yum and some other very useful stuff require synaptics
> in RC5, and since synaptics requires an xorg-x11 package which in turn
> requires some other stuff, I've got 40MB of cruft on a minimal install
> (including cups... what the heck does cups have to do with this?) that I
> cannot remove nicely thanks to synaptics.

yum doesn't depend on synaptics. (so removing up2date should be ok)

And I don't see the cups depending on synaptics...

Satish

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# yum remove synaptics
<snip>

Dependencies Resolved
Transaction Listing:
  Remove: synaptics.i386 0:0.13.5-5

Performing the following to resolve dependencies:
  Remove: authconfig-gtk.i386 0:4.6.5-3.1
  Remove: desktop-printing.i386 0:0.17-3
  Remove: firstboot.noarch 0:1.3.33-1
  Remove: hal-cups-utils.i386 0:0.5.2-8
  Remove: rhn-applet.i386 0:2.1.16-1
  Remove: rhpl.i386 0:0.148-1
  Remove: system-config-date.noarch 0:1.7.11-1
  Remove: system-config-display.noarch 0:1.0.23-1
  Remove: system-config-keyboard.noarch 0:1.2.5-1
  Remove: system-config-language.noarch 0:1.1.8-1
  Remove: system-config-mouse.noarch 0:1.2.9-1
  Remove: system-config-network.noarch 0:1.3.22-1
  Remove: system-config-network-tui.noarch 0:1.3.22-1
  Remove: system-config-packages.noarch 0:1.2.20-1
  Remove: system-config-printer.i386 0:0.6.116-1
  Remove: system-config-printer-gui.i386 0:0.6.116-1
  Remove: system-config-rootpassword.noarch 0:1.1.6-1
  Remove: system-config-securitylevel.i386 0:1.4.14-1
  Remove: system-config-services.noarch 0:0.8.15-1
  Remove: system-config-soundcard.noarch 0:1.2.10-1
  Remove: up2date.i386 0:4.3.47-5
  Remove: up2date-gnome.i386 0:4.3.47-5