yum - lack of features
Timothy Murphy
tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Tue Jun 28 12:09:42 UTC 2005
Sean O Sullivan wrote:
>> 1) Can't force a reinstall of package
>
> yum remove package
> yum install package
My impression is that this is - or was? - rather dangerous.
Doesn't "yum remove <pkg>" also remove any packages which require <pkg>,
which may be rather a lot?
I tried the above once, and got in a mess;
"yum install" was not a straightforward inverse of "yum remove".
Hopefully I'm wrong?
Personally, I would use rpm if I wanted to remove and re-install a package.
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