Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 455582
Unreasonable dependencies
Last modified: 2008-07-28 07:48:56 EDT
Description of problem: On a headless server, installing system-config-bind really shouldn't pull in 26MB of mostly X11 related crap that I don't want or need. Also, esound? audiofile? alsa-lib? For a config utility? What on earth for? After all, configuring bind seems like a fairly reasonable thing to do on a server in the datacentre. X11 isn't installed or desired, and it shouldn't be a dependency for an application like this. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.0.3-2.el5 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum install system-config-bind Actual results: ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: system-config-bind noarch 4.0.3-2.el5.centos base 5.3 M Installing for dependencies: GConf2 x86_64 2.14.0-9.el5 base 1.5 M ORBit2 x86_64 2.14.3-4.el5 base 262 k alsa-lib x86_64 1.0.14-1.rc4.el5 base 409 k audiofile x86_64 1:0.2.6-5 base 107 k avahi x86_64 0.6.16-1.el5 base 256 k avahi-glib x86_64 0.6.16-1.el5 base 14 k cairo x86_64 1.2.4-5.el5 base 386 k esound x86_64 1:0.2.36-3 base 130 k fontconfig x86_64 2.4.1-7.el5 base 175 k freetype x86_64 2.2.1-20.el5_2 updates 311 k gamin x86_64 0.1.7-8.el5 base 126 k gnome-keyring x86_64 0.6.0-1.fc6 base 166 k gnome-mime-data x86_64 2.4.2-3.1 base 691 k gnome-mount x86_64 0.5-3.el5 base 70 k gnome-python2 x86_64 2.16.0-1.fc6 base 130 k gnome-python2-bonobo x86_64 2.16.0-1.fc6 base 71 k gnome-python2-canvas x86_64 2.16.0-1.fc6 base 25 k gnome-python2-gnomevfs x86_64 2.16.0-1.fc6 base 69 k gnome-vfs2 x86_64 2.16.2-4.el5 base 1.3 M gtk2 x86_64 2.10.4-20.el5 base 6.5 M hicolor-icon-theme noarch 0.9-2.1 base 25 k libICE x86_64 1.0.1-2.1 base 54 k libIDL x86_64 0.8.7-1.fc6 base 87 k libSM x86_64 1.0.1-3.1 base 28 k libX11 x86_64 1.0.3-9.el5 base 795 k libXau x86_64 1.0.1-3.1 base 18 k libXcursor x86_64 1.1.7-1.1 base 32 k libXdmcp x86_64 1.0.1-2.1 base 19 k libXext x86_64 1.0.1-2.1 base 37 k libXfixes x86_64 4.0.1-2.1 base 15 k libXft x86_64 2.1.10-1.1 base 44 k libXi x86_64 1.0.1-3.1 base 25 k libXinerama x86_64 1.0.1-2.1 base 9.8 k libXrandr x86_64 1.1.1-3.1 base 15 k libXrender x86_64 0.9.1-3.1 base 28 k libXres x86_64 1.0.1-3.1 base 14 k libart_lgpl x86_64 2.3.17-4 base 75 k libbonobo x86_64 2.16.0-1.fc6 base 521 k libbonoboui x86_64 2.16.0-1.fc6 base 394 k libdaemon x86_64 0.10-5.el5 base 24 k libglade2 x86_64 2.6.0-2 base 96 k libgnome x86_64 2.16.0-6.el5 base 860 k libgnomecanvas x86_64 2.14.0-4.1 base 224 k libgnomeui x86_64 2.16.0-5.el5 base 984 k libnotify x86_64 0.4.2-6.el5 base 38 k libwnck x86_64 2.16.0-4.fc6 base 185 k libxslt x86_64 1.1.17-2.el5_1.1 updates 487 k notification-daemon x86_64 0.3.5-9.el5 base 48 k pango x86_64 1.14.9-3.el5.centos base 334 k pycairo x86_64 1.2.0-1.1 base 28 k pygobject2 x86_64 2.12.1-5.el5 base 98 k pygtk2 x86_64 2.10.1-12.el5 base 1.2 M pygtk2-libglade x86_64 2.10.1-12.el5 base 19 k pyorbit x86_64 2.14.1-1.1 base 49 k python-numeric x86_64 23.7-2.2.2 base 804 k shared-mime-info x86_64 0.19-5.el5 base 149 k startup-notification x86_64 0.8-4.1 base 32 k xorg-x11-filesystem noarch 7.1-2.fc6 base 5.4 k Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 59 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 26 M Additional info: Yes, it's a CentOS RPM, but having checked, the only difference between that and the RHEL one is the removal of branding. The dependencies are still the same.
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