Joe Zeff writes:
On 12/21/2014 02:07 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:I always thought that this was the whole reason behind rpm/yum: if package X requires Y, then yum should install it automatically.Yum will do that, if the package is available, but rpm doesn't.
Well, I used "yum" to install firewall-config. Therefore, I can reasonably expect that if firewall-config needs something installed, it should get pulled in as a direct or an indirect dependency.
But I have already established – and posted to the bug I earlier referenced – the fact that, apparently, nothing apparently stops me from doing this:
# rpm -e --test xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi-7.5-14.fc21.noarch xorg-x11- fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi-7.5-14.fc21.noarch xorg-x11-fonts- misc-7.5-14.fc21.noarch xorg-x11-fonts-Type1-7.5-14.fc21.noarch
This succeeds, with the firewall-config installed.But if I do that, and run firewall-config, it comes up just fine, but instead of seeing something written in king's English, I get ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, all over firewall-config's window.
But it does warm my heart, a little bit, to know that at least something in Fedora managed to figure out this complicated concept:
# rpm -e --test lyx-fonts error: Failed dependencies:font(:lang=en) is needed by (installed) fontconfig-2.11.1-5.fc21.x86_64
So, that's how it's supposed to work. Now, in addition to some fonts, it would be real nice to know what else firewall-config actually depends on, but the dependency fails to be specified in the package's dependency chain, and, as a result, half of its widgets are completely garbled and they do not respond to pointer and keyboard events.
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