[pacman-dev] Strange dependence

[Mateusz Jedrasik]

Monday 10 of September 2007 18:28:10 Sergej Pupykin napisał(a):
> Hi,
>
> Could anybody tell me what is this? And how to solve it properly?
>
> # pacman -R xorg
> checking dependencies...
> error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
>
> :: xorg is required by ted
>
> # pacman -Qi ted
> Name           : ted
> Version        : 2.17-2
> URL            : http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/
> License        : GPL
> Groups         : None
> Provides       : None
> Depends On     : lesstif  bash  libtiff  libxmu  libxpm  libpng
> Removes        : None
> Required By    : None
> Conflicts With : None
> Installed Size : 6763.94 K
> Packager       : Travis Willard <travis at archlinux.org>
> Architecture   : i686
> Build Date     : Fri Sep  7 23:53:01 2007 UTC
> Build Type     : Unknown
> Install Date   : Mon Sep 10 15:29:24 2007 UTC
> Install Reason : Explicitly installed
> Install Script : No
> Description    : An easy rich text processor (with footnote support)
>
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Well, aparently ted requires xorg. Remove ted, so you can remove xorg. If you 
don't care about ted being broken by xorg's removal, you can use pacman -Rd 
xorg.

Read the pacman documentation. pacman -R --help also, well, helps.

Cheers,

//m.
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