From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021021 Phoenix/0.3 Description of problem: gnome-libs has taken over libdb1 and libdb2, resulting in *very* bizarre package dependencies (i.e. net-snmp requires libdb.so.2, which is only provided by gnome-libs, thereby linking net-snmp to gnome-libs for no othe reason). Prior to 8.0, db1 and db2 libraries were either provided by their own rpms or as part of the glibc package. Either one of these behaviours would be far, far preferable to the current solution. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Do not install gnome-libs. 2. Attempt to install net-snmp. 3. Additional info:
db1 and db2 would have been removed entirely, they exist only to preserve the gnome-libs 1.4 ABI. db1/db2 are deprecated and not really provided for use outside of gnome-libs.
db2 is also used by net-snmp, however, which is a member of the 'base' group. This makes gnome-libs a mandatory installation, no matter which way you slice it, because the contents of the 'base' group are forcibly installed by anaconda. By rolling libdb2 into gnome-libs, gtk+ (and other assorted dependencies of gnome-libs) are now mandatory in *every* RedHat installation, despite the wishes of the installer. I understand it's not really feasible to fix this at the 8.0 level, but if db2 is going to continue to be packaged in 8.1 alongside other packages that depend on it, could you please seperate back out into its individual package as it was during the 7.x series?
Oh, net-snmp is ours - it should not link to db2. That's the first thing to fix.
Will be fixed in a rawhide version real soon... :-) Read ya, Phil
OK, fixed in latest rawhide versions. Read ya, Phil