yum groupremove removes to much!!

[Mark]

gdm.. oke that could be possible..
but still.. i find it strange that everything of KDE is alos being removed
when you only enter this command:
"yum groupremove "GNOME Desktop Environment""

that`s just not what i would expect to happen..

2007/4/2, John Mahowald <jpmahowald at gmail.com>:
>
> On 4/1/07, Mark <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > yum groupremove "GNOME Desktop Environment"
> >
> > and yum started removing.. (over 200 packages!!)
> >
> > now it didn`t just remove all of gnome but also ALL OF KDE (i had KDE
> > installed aswell) and all the gnome development tools that i had
> installed..
> > is that normal?
>
> Development tools depend on their corresponding packages. And you
> probably removed gdm or something KDE depended on, without the KDE
> equivalent in place. Sounds normal, unless you have a specific example
> of a dependency that doesn't make sense.
>
> > yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment" (-y)
> > and now it`s just installing a little more than 100 packages..
> > that leaves another 100 packages that are being removed when you remove
> > gnome but not being reinstalled..
>
> Yes, but did you reinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"  and "GNOME
> Software Development" ? If not that is not a fair comparison.
>
> John
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