[packagekit] PackageKit tries to remove a bazillion dependencies

[Adrien Bustany]

Hi Olivier
it's not PackageKit who's trying to remove packages, it's your package 
manager. PackageKit is "just" an interface to you package manager... So 
you bug must be specific to your distribution (PackageKit doesn't do 
dependency resolving itself).

Cheers

Adrien

On 11/07/09 22:04, Olivier Lefevre wrote:
>   >  Most likely your distro is wrong
>
> The distro is Kubuntu 9.01
>
>    
>> you picked the wrong version of the libraries to remove.
>>      
> I said I wanted to upgrade. By definition that implies that I want to
> remove the older version. What is "wrong" with that?
>
>    
>> It's not like suddenly all of the other applications are going to
>>      
>   >  recompile themselves with the other version
>
> So you mean that all those other applications PackageIt wants to remove
> have a hardcoded dependency on mysql client v15 specifically and will not
> gracefully pick up v16 libraries if I upgrade? That doesn't seem very
> sensible.
>
> The list of things it wanted to remove was highly suspect anyway. Why
> would it, e.g., remove kde-window-manager: what the heck does a window
> manager have to do with a MySQL??? Same for MySQL Server: why should
> the server be removed because one of its client is???
>
> -- O.L.
>
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