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Is there any way to tell Centos that I don't care about a missing dependency in my yum database?

Specifically, consider sudo, which requires /usr/bin/vi. Uninstalling vim-minimal (which provides /usr/bin/vi) also uninstalls sudo. Installing vim-enhanced (which is what I actually want) provides /usr/bin/vim not /usr/bin/vi.

I get that visudo needs an editor. ln [-s] /usr/bin/vim /usr/bin/vi fulfills the requirement to all acceptable standards I've come across.

So why does package-cleanup --problems continue to care about /usr/bin/vi? As far as anything else is concerned, that file exists.

I've seen plenty of posts, questions, bug reports, etc. requesting that the package be changed (all of which seem to be ten years old, closed and/or ignored) but this still seems to be a thing.

# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core)
# package-cleanup --problems
Package sudo-1.8.23-3.el7.x86_64 has missing requires of /usr/bin/vi
# ls -l /usr/bin/vi*
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      12 Jan 21 23:57 /usr/bin/vi -> /usr/bin/vim*
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 2294208 Oct 30 19:57 /usr/bin/vim*
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root       3 Jan 19 03:06 /usr/bin/vimdiff -> vim*
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root    2084 Oct 30 19:57 /usr/bin/vimtutor*

(Just an irritation...)

jimbobmcgee
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  • Change teh control file for one or the other RPMs, either to accept vi or vim or to state that it is providing both vi and vim. – ivanivan Jan 22 '19 at 00:15
  • @ivanivan - is that something I can do, as the user of my system; or something that the distro should do as the provider of the package...? If it is something I can do, can you elaborate as to how? – jimbobmcgee Jan 22 '19 at 17:41
  • Should be able to do it for yourself, although you'll need root access to install of course. May want to file it as a bug to the package maintainer as well, either for the vim (since it is providing a vi command) or for the sudo package since ANY editor should be valid to use with visudo. If you care to do it yourself check out https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/RPM_Guide/ch-advanced-packaging.html – ivanivan Jan 22 '19 at 18:08

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