removing KDE removes NetworkManager-gnome??

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 7 May 2009, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:

> Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>>    I ran the following command this morning:
>>> sudo yum --disableplugin=remove-with-leaves groupremove "KDE (K Desktop
>>> Environment)"
>> 
>> There's currently a lot of overlap between desktop environments.  So,
>> removing all of kde may well pull out components otherwise used by other
>> DE's as well.
>
> Fair enough. Which brings me to my next question, should a bug be filed 
> against whatever yum/rpm component that does group removal? Should it not see 
> that a package exists in multiple groups, and only remove when no other 
> installed group requires it? Wouldn't that be logical? Seems like a good 
> idea...
>

Logical, but then so is the other view - the user asked us to remove pkgs 
X Y and Z. This means remove all things depending on them, too.

-sv