devel packages

Matias Féliciano feliciano.matias at free.fr
Wed Oct 13 21:25:03 UTC 2004


Le mercredi 13 octobre 2004 à 15:35 -0500, Jason Dravet a écrit :
> I just completed a custom install of FC3T3 and I ended up with 39 devel
> packages on my PC.  I then went to up2date the system and there are 226
> updates, 6 of which are devel updates.  One of the updates is rpm-devel
> (3.3MB).  Some of the others are: glibc-devel (2MB), libgcj-devel (6.7MB)
> and libstdc++-devel (8.7MB).  I went to command prompt and rpm -e rpm-devel
> and the package was erased.  There was no warning about a package being
> dependent on the rpm-devel package so why was it installed?  Do I really
> need the devel packages?  For those of us with dial up it would nice if FC
> did not any unnecessary devel packages.  
> 

up2date does not install new packages (except if _really_ needed).
If you see this again, file a bug. But carefully check that you don't
have the package already installed !

btw, up2date is interactive.

> Thanks,
> 
> Jason
> 
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