On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 08:47:25AM -0300, Martín Marqués wrote: > Talking about irrational things, why the hell would I need to install > qt-devel and gtk+-devel to get kernel-source installed in FC2? Because of the GUI configuration tools in the kernel source which require those toolkits. One of the flaws in RPM is that it's hard to make a distinction between "would be nice to have" and "needs to have to work at all". (And not without reason -- adding such a distinction gets you into exactly the quagmire that is this thread, as everyone has different ideas about what is absolutely vital.) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>