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Excluding dependencies from yum update

On my system I have mono and libgdiplus installed from source. When I do a yum update dbus, yum attempts to install mono and libgdiplus because they are required for dbus-sharp.

Code:

Updating:

 dbus                    i386      0.61-3.fc5.1    updates          624 k

 dbus-devel              i386      0.61-3.fc5.1    updates            35 k

 dbus-glib              i386      0.61-3.fc5.1    updates          108 k

 dbus-python            i386      0.61-3.fc5.1    updates          135 k

 dbus-sharp              i386      0.61-3.fc5.1    updates            52 k

 dbus-x11                i386      0.61-3.fc5.1    updates            21 k





Installing for dependencies:

 libgdiplus              i386      1.1.13.6-1.fc5.1  updates          280 k

 mono-core              i386      1.1.13.7-1.fc5.1  updates            11 M

Is it possible to get yum to exclude these dependencies or do I need to download the dbus rpm's and install them with rpm --nodeps?

Paddy

you can't make yum ignore dependencies, so if you really are comfortable breaking the dependencies then you would manually install dbus-sharp. obviously this isn't a nice solution, but then many dependencies are arbitrary and won't cause problems if broken. buyer beware of course.

Cheers I'll just install them manually then for the moment.

Paddy