yum -y update installs new software!?

Vinicius cviniciusm at terra.com.br
Wed Jan 26 15:08:14 UTC 2005


Paul Howarth escreveu:
> 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.
> 

I did get this too:
- openct and opencs from The KDE-RedHat Project and
- Hermes and liboil from Dag Apt Repository.

I don't like to get packages installed automatically.
I know I can uninstall them manually after, but I prefer to install 
manually with the exception of updates.

Cheers,
Vinicius.




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