On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Martin Marques wrote:
I was updating one FC5 workstation we have, conected with a wireless AP. I
was really shocked when I say that bind was about to be updated.
First I thought that it may not be the named server, but some libs necesary
for name resolution, so I tried to remove it.
OOOOHHHHHHH!!!!!
evolution, NetworkManager, NetworkManager-glib, etc. will be removed.
Why in earth would any of these packages depende on bind?
# rpm -q --whatrequires bind
bind-config-9.3.2-20.FC5
NetworkManager-0.6.4-1.fc5
I don't see the dependency chain to evolution. NetworkManager wants to
use a caching nameserver (generally a good thing to do with a laptop that
migrates from network to network[1]), but in fact it doesn't require one
anymore. It will use the nameservers provided by DHCP if bind is off.
[1] I once went into Laptop Lane, but I couldn't connect to anything using
their network. Turns out they don't provide name servers!
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
