On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 04:00:58 +0800,
P J P <pj.pandit(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote:
Does that mean gnome-shell, xchat & gthumb can not function
without package bluez? No. It means dependency relationship is broken.
In the eyes of the gnome developers the answer is no, it won't work properly
without bluez. That's why there is a dependency.
Perhaps someone could do some work to make gnome work reasonably without
bluez and changes comps so that bluez would get installed by default with
gnome. (So that it would work the same as now in most cases.) And the benefit
of this is to save a small amount of disk space. Given that, most people
are likely to consider this a low priority task compared to other things
they could do to make Fedora better. If this is really important to you,
you should consider engaging the gnome developers to see if there would
be acceptible way to make change and what kinds of tasks would need to be
done.
Your example of removing kernel is even more esoteric. Fedora wouldn't
work at all without it. There may be some reason one might have for wanting
a bunch of Fedora packages installed without the kernel, but you aren't likely
to find anyone interested in making a way to do that.