On Monday 29 March 2010 08:34:58 Ed Greshko wrote: > A previous post prompted me to try removing various language groups via > yum. I was surprised when this happened after doing yum groupremove > "Tajik Support".... > [snip complete openoffice suite] Well of course, Tajik Support is completely crucial for any core Linux functionality, didn't you know? :-D Seriously, the culprit is here is dejavu-sans-fonts, it seems. From the yum dependency resolution, --> Processing Dependency: dejavu-sans-fonts for package: 1:openoffice.org- core-3.1.1-19.28.fc12.x86_64 so anything openoffice* depends on it. However, the same package is listed under "mandatory" section in yum groupinfo "Tajik Support": Group: Tajik Support Mandatory Packages: dejavu-sans-fonts Default Packages: dejavu-sans-mono-fonts dejavu-serif-fonts Conditional Packages: kde-l10n-Tajik I don't know what "mandatory" means in this context, but I guess when you try to remove the whole group, yum tries to remove the dejavu fonts as well, creating a cascade. > This deserves a bugzilla....but I wonder what component would be best to > file it under. Does anyone know for sure? I would guess that the "Tajik Support" group is the culprit here, but I'm not sure this is actually a bug. While not being certain how the concept of a "group" actually works, my guess is that if you want to remove the *whole* group, it removes the *whole* group. Maybe someone can explain how to remove the group without removing all of it's packages? Actually, I've been wondering even before about this --- if I yum groupinstall some group, then remove some individual package which is a part of that group, does that mean that the group is still installed or not? It is unclear to me what criterion defines that a group is installed, since one can have only some of its packages installed. Fuzzy. As a workaround, I guess yum groupremove "Tajik Support" followed by yum install openoffice* would not drag in the complete Tajik support again, but just the dejavu-sans-fonts package which is needed. Best, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
