I was attempting to remove mozilla today and noted the following dependencies from yum. Is this an expected effect, or something that we should look into?
Dependencies Resolved
============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Removing: mozilla-nss x86_64 37:1.7.12-1.5.1 installed 1.9 M mozilla-nss i386 37:1.7.12-1.5.1 installed 1.5 M Removing for dependencies: NetworkManager-gnome x86_64 0.4-20.FC4.1 installed 190 k control-center x86_64 1:2.10.1-6 installed 6.8 M evolution x86_64 2.2.3-2.fc4 installed 24 M evolution-data-server x86_64 1.2.3-3.fc4 installed 11 M evolution-webcal x86_64 2.2.0-1 installed 226 k gaim x86_64 1:1.5.0-1.fc4 installed 11 M gnome-applets x86_64 1:2.10.1-9 installed 28 M gnome-netstatus x86_64 2.10.0-4 installed 914 k gnome-panel x86_64 2.10.1-10.2 installed 8.4 M gnome-panel-devel x86_64 2.10.1-10.2 installed 162 k gnome-pilot x86_64 2.0.13-2 installed 1.7 M gnome-pilot-devel x86_64 2.0.13-2 installed 508 k gnome-session x86_64 2.10.0-2 installed 1.2 M gnome-utils x86_64 1:2.10.0-3 installed 16 M gnome-volume-manager x86_64 1.3.1-1 installed 743 k gnomemeeting x86_64 1.2.2-1.FC4 installed 9.0 M gnopernicus x86_64 0.10.6-1 installed 5.8 M libgail-gnome x86_64 1.1.0-5 installed 61 k mozilla-nss-devel x86_64 37:1.7.12-1.5.1 installed 2.0 M openoffice.org-calc i386 1:1.9.125-1.1.0.fc4 installed 15 M openoffice.org-core i386 1:1.9.125-1.1.0.fc4 installed 196 M openoffice.org-draw i386 1:1.9.125-1.1.0.fc4 installed 2.6 M openoffice.org-graphicfilter i386 1:1.9.125-1.1.0.fc4 installed 368 k openoffice.org-impress i386 1:1.9.125-1.1.0.fc4 installed 4.3 M openoffice.org-math i386 1:1.9.125-1.1.0.fc4 installed 3.1 M openoffice.org-writer i386 1:1.9.125-1.1.0.fc4 installed 5.9 M openoffice.org-xsltfilter i386 1:1.9.125-1.1.0.fc4 installed 22
Sean
On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 13:13 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
I was attempting to remove mozilla today and noted the following dependencies from yum. Is this an expected effect, or something that we should look into?
Dependencies Resolved
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[mpeters@laptop ~]$ rpm --test -e mozilla error: Failed dependencies: libgtkembedmoz.so is needed by (installed) yelp-2.10.0-1.4.2.i386 libxpcom.so is needed by (installed) yelp-2.10.0-1.4.2.i386 mozilla >= 1.7.12 is needed by (installed) yelp-2.10.0-1.4.2.i386 [mpeters@laptop ~]$
yelp is what needs mozilla on my system. If removing mozilla via yum gave you that list of apps that depend upon it, it may be a bug in yum.
If you don't want yelp (the help system for gnome) you can probably remove it with rpm -e yelp - and then remove mozilla with rpm -e mozilla.
If you do want yelp (it is quite useful) you could remove the mozilla desktop file - /usr/share/applications/mozilla.desktop - and then it won't be in your menu items anymore (until the next update ...).
Interestingly -
[mpeters@laptop ~]$ locate libgtkembedmoz.so /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.7/libgtkembedmoz.so /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.12/libgtkembedmoz.so [mpeters@laptop ~]$ locate libxpcom.so /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.7/libxpcom.so /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.12/libxpcom.so [mpeters@laptop ~]$
I wonder if yelp could be build to use the Firefox libgtkembedmoz.so and libxpcom.so instead of the Mozilla versions.
In fact - I wonder if the common libraries between them could just be package they both depend on, along with yum, so that the duplication isn't necessary.