Dependencies a little excessive?
seth vidal
skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Thu Aug 10 20:35:57 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 15:34 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 03:04:07PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > okay - then here are a couple of more situations I want to make sure are
> > understood:
> > yum remove foo*
> > it should remove all packages starting with foo of EVERY arch or just of
> > the primary arch in the biarch set?
>
> I would expect matches of all archs to be removed.
>
> > only installs the primary arch - not the secondary one - then we're
> > creating some expectation of it for the others.
>
> Actaully, there is precedent for somewhat equivalent behavior in yum
> already. If you ask for a package by name without a version, "yum install"
> will just give you the latest one -- but "yum remove" will take out all
> matches.
>
> > consistency is a good thing, I think.
>
> Bah. Hobgoblins and all that. :)
>
> But really, given the above, I don't think it is inconsistent.
>
In the situations where you dislike the current behavior - could you
just add: exclude=*.i?86
to your /etc/yum.conf and be done w/it?
-sv
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