mandusr20071 Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 In my 2007.1 install, $ rpm -qa |grep firefox libmozilla-firefox2.0.0.8-2.0.0.8-1mdv2007.1 mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.12-1.1mdv2007.1 libmozilla-firefox2.0.0.3-2.0.0.3-2mdv2007.1 libmozilla-firefox2.0.0.11-2.0.0.11-1.1mdv2007.1 libmozilla-firefox2.0.0.6-2.0.0.6-4mdv2007.1 libmozilla-firefox2.0.0.12-2.0.0.12-1.1mdv2007.1 Since mozilla is frequently updated, this gives takes up a lot of space. Anyone else have the same problem? I had deleted a bunch of them manually a while ago, and these are the latest ones to crop up. Any help is appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 Seems that Mandriva is not clearing up the dependencies properly when a package is updated/removed. This is not uncommon across any rpm distro - it's usual for libraries to be left behind. As you mentioned, you can remove them manually of course. Or complain to Mandriva about it so that they can attempt to improve dependency detection and get them removed when an upgrade occurs. I don't really understand why this doesn't happen already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandusr20071 Posted February 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 Or complain to Mandriva about it so that they can attempt to improve dependency detection and get them removed when an upgrade occurs. I don't really understand why this doesn't happen already. I have a theory about why it doesn't happen--the packages are names libmozilla-firefox2...etc instead of libmozilla-firefox-2..etc. This would be a packaging issue rather than a mcc issue. The disk space it takes up is quite large too. :mellow: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted February 25, 2008 Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 Theories are interesting... but however This-Should-Not-Happen, end of story. Since 2007.1 is still supported, you should complain to Mandriva about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 26, 2008 Report Share Posted February 26, 2008 I've seen it done in Red Hat also, if you removed OpenIPMI package, OpenIPMI-libs package was left behind. Seems to be a trait unfortunately that some packages get left behind even if they have no other dependencies keeping them there. I would expect it to be kept back if it was going to remove another package, but if not, it should be gone automatically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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