[packagekit] PackageKit tries to remove a bazillion dependencies

[Patryk Zawadzki]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Olivier Lefevre<lefevrol at yahoo.com> wrote:
> After an upgrade I ended up with two versions of the MySQL
> client libraries and I wanted to remove the older one.
> PackgeKit then informed me that "The following packages
> will also be removed for dependencies". The list was almost
> a hundred items long and included things like MySQL server
> itself! Either this message is badly worded or PackageKit
> is seriously buggy. Which is it? It doesn't even give you
> the option of pruning the list of dependencies to be removed.
> At the moment I have no confidence that I can use PakckageKit
> without breaking my system.

Does not look like a PK bug. Most likely your distro is wrong (you
didn't mention what distro you're on) or you picked the wrong version
of the libraries to remove. It's not like suddenly all of the other
applications are going to recompile themselves with the other version
;)

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Patryk Zawadzki