Why do I need mDNSResponder/howl?
Kam Leo
kam.leo at gmail.com
Sat Jan 15 04:39:43 UTC 2005
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:35:29 -0800, Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 21:04:35 -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic
> <amilivojevic at pbl.ca> wrote:
> > Quoting Randy <toucan at tropicalrain.us>
> > Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:04:49
> >
> > > I hope it's gone in FC4.
> >
> > It probably won't be gone in FC4, however I hope that it will be possible to
> > deinstall it. In FC3, there is so much stuff that directly or indirectly
> > depends on howl package, that it should really be considered as bug (and filed
> > on bugzilla). I've just run "yum remove howl" on my newly installed laptop, and
> > among other things that would need to be removed to satisfy dependencies are
> > gnome-panel, openoffice, firefox, thunderbird, gimp, and list is still
> > growing... It's almost impossible to cleanly remove from desktop system
> > (without forcing, and braking dependencies). Most of those packages are
> > probably tied to the fact that gnome-vfs2 depends on howl-libs (a dependency
> > that I hope will be removed in updated gnome-vfs2 package for FC3, and not
> > present in FC4 at all).
> >
> > --
> > Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic at pbl.ca> Pollard Banknote Limited
>
> Strange? On my system nothing depends on howl-libs. Here's what rpm has to say:
>
> $ rpm -q howl
> howl-0.9.6-6
> $ rpm -q --whatrequires howl
> howl-libs-0.9.6-6
> $ rpm -q --whatrequires howl-libs-0.9.6-6
> no package requires howl-libs-0.9.6-6
>
> What version of howl do you have? From where did you obtain it?
>
> -- Kam
>
Oops. Sorry, got too specific with the query. I got the following
result with this query:
$ rpm -q --whatrequires howl-libs
gnome-vfs2-2.8.2-8
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