rpm question

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 08:57:06 -0700, JD wrote:

> Is rpm broken?

No.
 
> # rpm -qv --whatrequires libmapi libzeitgeist
> no package requires libmapi
> no package requires libzeitgeist
> # rpm -e libmapi libzeitgeist
> error: Failed dependencies:
>      libinetmapi.so.1 is needed by (installed) php-mapi-7.0.7-1.fc16.i686
>      libmapi.so.0 is needed by (installed) php-mapi-7.0.7-1.fc16.i686
>      libmapi.so.0 is needed by (installed) pam_mapi-0.1.1-1.fc16.i686
>      libzeitgeist-1.0.so.1 is needed by (installed) 
> zeitgeist-datahub-0.7.0-2.fc16.i686
>      libzeitgeist-1.0.so.1 is needed by (installed) 
> gedit-zeitgeist-2:3.2.6-1.fc16.i686

Pay extra attention to what is display in the "Failed dependencies"
section. These packages don't depend on "package names" but on library
names.

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