yum -y update installs new software!?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed Jan 26 13:06:48 UTC 2005


RAT wrote:
> I had fresh installation of FC3 with my own selection of packages
> installed. I've runned yum -y update and what a suprise! I get packages
> which I don't want to have - why it installs tetex, ethereal, gaim,
> gphoto2. I don't want these! 

Seems unlikely, but perhaps these were dependencies for an updated 
version of something you *did* install?

If you do "yum remove tetex" for instance, does it want to remove 
anything you actually want along with tetex?

Paul.




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