Package dependency question (on SuSE-10.2)

[Travis Roy]

>
>  RPM will not let you erase a package the other packages depend on.
> So, for example, if one were to try  "rpm --erase glibc" because
> "ekiga" depended on it, RPM will complain with a (very long) list of
> reasons why you shouldn't do that.

And be sure not to feed the output of "rpm -qa" to "rpm --erase"

Ben would know about the effects of that first hand..

Sorry, couldn't help it :)