On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 21:04:35 -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@xxxxxx> wrote: > Quoting Randy <toucan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:04:49 > > > I hope it's gone in FC4. > > It probably won't be gone in FC4, however I hope that it will be possible to > deinstall it. In FC3, there is so much stuff that directly or indirectly > depends on howl package, that it should really be considered as bug (and filed > on bugzilla). I've just run "yum remove howl" on my newly installed laptop, and > among other things that would need to be removed to satisfy dependencies are > gnome-panel, openoffice, firefox, thunderbird, gimp, and list is still > growing... It's almost impossible to cleanly remove from desktop system > (without forcing, and braking dependencies). Most of those packages are > probably tied to the fact that gnome-vfs2 depends on howl-libs (a dependency > that I hope will be removed in updated gnome-vfs2 package for FC3, and not > present in FC4 at all). > > -- > Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@xxxxxx> Pollard Banknote Limited Strange? On my system nothing depends on howl-libs. Here's what rpm has to say: $ rpm -q howl howl-0.9.6-6 $ rpm -q --whatrequires howl howl-libs-0.9.6-6 $ rpm -q --whatrequires howl-libs-0.9.6-6 no package requires howl-libs-0.9.6-6 What version of howl do you have? From where did you obtain it? -- Kam
