On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 14:46 -0500, Peter Horst wrote: > I just tried my first 'yum update'. The list of packages to be updated > included 'gtk2' and 'mesa-libGL', but the system that I'm updating was > installed without an X server. Aren't those graphics packages? Do bear in mind that X applications can be used over the network and don't need a local X server to be useful. > I am just curious as to why they would have been included during the > install process. My impression was that 'yum update' would only update > packages that are currently installed on the machine - is this correct? > PS I'm not an anti-GUI fanatic, I'm just curious :-) A "yum update" might install them on a system that didn't already have them if they're new dependencies for something you do already have installed. You can first of all see if they're currently installed: $ rpm -q gtk2 mesa-libGL If they are, you can check what package(s) requires them by asking yum to remove them: # yum remove gtk2 mesa-libGL You probably won't want to actually remove these packages, so be sure not to use "yum -y" and be careful to respond "N" when prompted whether to go ahead with the removal or not. Paul.
