F12: weird dependenciy between xpaint and emacs

[Joachim Backes]

On 01/29/2010 01:17 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:33:48 +0100, Joachim wrote:
>
>> On my F12 box, both emacs and xpaint are installed.
>>
>> When trying to uninstall emacs, I get:
>>
>> sudo yum erase emacs
>> Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
>> Setting up Remove Process
>> Resolving Dependencies
>> -->  Running transaction check
>> --->  Package emacs.i686 1:23.1-18.fc12 set to be erased
>> -->  Processing Dependency: emacs for package: xpaint-2.8.7.3-1.fc12.i686
>> -->  Running transaction check
>> --->  Package xpaint.i686 0:2.8.7.3-1.fc12 set to be erased
>> -->  Finished Dependency Resolution
>>
>> Dependencies Resolved
>>
>> ================================================================================
>>    Package         Arch          Version                 Repository
>>       Size
>> ================================================================================
>> Removing:
>>    emacs           i686          1:23.1-18.fc12          installed
>>      6.6 M
>> Removing for dependencies:
>>    xpaint          i686          2.8.7.3-1.fc12          installed
>>      1.6 M
>>
>> Transaction Summary
>> ================================================================================
>> Remove        2 Package(s)
>>
>> But after having uninstalled emacs by "rpm -e emacs --nodeps", xpaint
>> still runs properly. So, why that dependency?
>
> Examine the "xpaint" package to see whether it stores files in any
> of Emacs' directories. That may be the reason for the dependency.
> Else check out the xpaint.spec file.

I found no common files.

How to extract the specfile from the xpaint package?

-- 
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes

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