Is yum dependency resolution upside down?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 14:36 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: 
> On 06/13/2011 02:18 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > That's a "feature" of dependency analysis: NetworkManager expects to be
> > able to control ppp connections.  In order to do that, it needs ppp. So
> > if you remove ppp, NetworkManager thinks it is itself broken.  But if
> > you never intend to use NetworkManager to control ppp connections, it
> > would seem that you could install NetworkManager without installing ppp.
> > It would never break if you never ask it to do that.
> 
> Thank you; asked and answered.  I'd prefer to have Network Services be a 
> dependency of ppp rather than the other way around, but as we both point 
> out, the space involved is trivial.

But ppp could work without NetworkManager, where the reverse is not true
(if one wanted to use NetworkManager to control dialup).  So the
dependency is the right way around, it's just conditional.

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