https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=355453 Summary: [zypper] allows to break the system Product: openSUSE 11.0 Version: unspecified Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: libzypp AssignedTo: dmacvicar@novell.com ReportedBy: dominique.leuenberger@tmf-group.com QAContact: dmacvicar@novell.com Found By: --- Ijust ran into the following: zypper in toycars (is just an example). it requests to install toycars, fmodex and fmodex-devel (the -devel is a packaging issue, not important for this bug here). after this finishes, I try rpm -e fmodex-devel; output: dominique@joshua:~/Documents/src/osc> rpm -e fmodex-devel error: Failed dependencies: libfmodex.so is needed by (installed) fmodex-4.10.01-1.7.i586 libfmodex.so is needed by (installed) toycars-0.3.5-2.6.i586 ok, so the -devel file is needed (well, the .so should not be in the devel file in this case). but if I issue a rm fmodex-devel in zypper, the package get's removed: zypper> rm fmodex-devel The following package is going to be REMOVED: fmodex-devel After the operation, 4.8 M will be freed. Continue? [yes/no]: y * Removing fmodex-devel-4.10.01-1.7 [100%] No indication whatsoever that I'll just break my system (or some application) like this! -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.