From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/124 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.1 Description of problem: The 2.6 kernel-source package claims dependency on gtk2-devel and qt-devel, which makes it difficult to install the package on a headless server that has no X11/GUI bits. GTK and Qt should be optional, they are needed only for some of the graphical configuration variants but you can compile the source without them. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-source-2.6.5-1.350 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Find a system with no GTK or Qt devel packages 2. rpm -ivh kernel-source-*.rpm Actual Results: error: Failed dependencies: gtk2-devel is needed by kernel-source-2.6.5-1.350 qt-devel is needed by kernel-source-2.6.5-1.350 Expected Results: Problem-free installation of kernel-source package. Additional info: Workaround: use --nodeps option on rpm.
Well these deps are real for make xconfig / make gconfig which are documented ways to configure the kernel. (btw if you think you need kernel-source to build some external module against; that changed with the 2.6 rpms, you can't use kernel-source for that anymore, everything needed is in the normal kernel rpm already)