From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: Hi, In order to reduce the size of FC would be great to trim the dependencies of some packages such as httpd-devel Installing: httpd-devel i386 2.0.54-10 base 148 k Installing for dependencies: apr-devel i386 0.9.6-3 base 518 k apr-util-devel i386 0.9.6-2 base 239 k cyrus-sasl-devel i386 2.1.20-5 base 1.4 M db4-devel i386 4.3.27-3 base 1.9 M expat-devel i386 1.95.8-6 base 127 k openldap-devel i386 2.2.23-5 base 1.4 M pcre-devel i386 5.0-4 base 107 k Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.yum install httpd-devel 2. 3. Actual Results: All the other packages are installed but some may be not necessary Additional info:
They are all necessary unless you have specific evidence to the contrary. You can't use httpd headers without the headers from apr, apr-util and pcre. You can't use the libraries from apr-util without the libraries from openldap, etc etc.