undoubtedly a simple question, but a friend asked me about this yesterday, and threw a wrinkle into it. (i'm running on fedora 30 branched but that should make no difference.) if i ask for the package dependencies of, say, httpd, among everything else, i get the line: config(httpd) = 2.4.38-4.fc30 i've always interpreted that as, "a proper install of httpd requires all of its corresponding config files installed," and i've known for a while that one can list the config files of any installed package with: $ rpm -qc httpd /etc/httpd/conf.d/autoindex.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/userdir.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/00-base.conf /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/00-dav.conf /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/00-lua.conf /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/00-mpm.conf /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/00-optional.conf /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/00-proxy.conf /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/00-systemd.conf /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/01-cgi.conf /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf /etc/httpd/conf/magic /etc/logrotate.d/httpd /etc/sysconfig/htcacheclean $ is that what the above dependency refers to? that httpd has, as dependencies, its own config files as displayed by "rpm -qc"? if it doesn't, i've been confused all this time, but that's not the wrinkle. said friend then asked, "can a package have, as a dependency, the config files of some *other* package?" i had to think about that, and admitted i wasn't sure, as that sounded like a strange dependency, as i would think the first package would simply depend on the second package in its entirety, not just on its config files, but i wasn't sure. thoughts? am i thinking about this the right way, or have i been mistaken all this time? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================