Crazy dependancy issues in f7?

[Michael Schwendt]

On 03/07/07, Andreas Bernauer <fedora at lysium.de> wrote:
> Dan wrote on Tue, Jul 03 2007 at 20:28 (+1000):
> > Now I'm trying to remove gnome, x11, and all the useless crap I wont ever
> > need on a server (synaptics?) when I reached this point: grub required
> > gtk2.
> >
> > Why the hell does a boot manager, grub, require a graphical toolkit?
> >
> > The only way I could remove gtk2 was to remove grub. Example, to now
> > install grub:
> >
> > Installing:
> >  grub                    i386       0.97-13          fedora            489 k
> > Installing for dependencies:
> >  fedora-logos            noarch     6.0.98-3.fc7     fedora            5.0 M
> >  gtk2                    i386       2.10.13-1.fc7    updates           6.8 M
> >  gtk2-engines            i386       2.10.2-2.fc7     updates           413 k
> >  redhat-artwork          i386       7.0.0-9.fc7      fedora            6.1 M
> >
> >
> > WHY?!? Am I the only person that finds this completely and utterly
> > absurd?
>
> Hm, here it looks different:
>
> samba:~$ yum deplist grub
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Finding dependencies:
> Excluding Packages in global exclude list
> Finished
> package: grub.x86_64 0.97-13
>   dependency: system-logos
>    provider: fedora-logos.noarch 6.0.98-3.fc7
>   dependency: /sbin/install-info
>    provider: info.x86_64 4.8-15
>   dependency: /bin/sh
>    provider: bash.x86_64 3.2-9.fc7
>   dependency: mktemp
>    provider: mktemp.x86_64 3:1.5-25.fc7
>   dependency: /usr/bin/cmp
>    provider: diffutils.x86_64 2.8.1-16.fc7
>
> I don't see gtk, but maybe yum isn't perfect.

Look closer:
system-logos  =>  fedora-logos  =>  redhat-artwork  => gtk2'n'friends!