On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:00:02 +0100 Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 15:03:20 +0100, Henk Breimer wrote: > > > [net@pietro ~]$ yum remove libthai > > > Remove 266 Package(s) > > > > Is this ok [y/N]: > > no, of course. > > Remaining question: is this the way 'requires' should be used? > > You show that you don't understand the reason for this. This is a > shared library that is linked with another system library: Pango. It > results in an automatic 'Requires' on the libthai library SONAME in > the pango package, since the library is required at run-time and > isn't optional. > > $ repoquery --whatrequires libthai.so.0 > libthai-0:0.1.9-4.fc9.i386 > pango-0:1.20.4-1.fc9.i386 > libthai-devel-0:0.1.9-4.fc9.i386 > scim-thai-0:0.1.1-2.fc9.i386 > pango-0:1.20.1-1.fc9.i386 > > Pango in turn is required by many a dozen packages. Removing Pango > creates a long dependency chain of packages that would need to be > removed, too. > > In case you want to remove a system library like LibThai, you would > need to disable it in Pango -- or rewrite Pango to load the library > as an optional plugin (that's likely harder). > > -- I fully understand what caused this. My next question would be : "what would happen if such a helper program for every small lanquage were included in the same way?" A better solution is needed for this kind of things. Henk -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
