yum - lack of features
John Summerfied
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Tue Jun 28 16:28:00 UTC 2005
Paul Howarth wrote:
>
>> I tried the above once, and got in a mess;
>> "yum install" was not a straightforward inverse of "yum remove".
>
>
> Yes, this is true.
>
> Consider the package sendmail-cf, which depends on sendmail.
>
> "yum remove sendmail" will remove sendmail-cf too, because it depends on
> sendmail.
>
> "yum install sendmail" will install sendmail, but not sendmail-cf, since
> sendmail itself does not depend on sendmail-cf.
The correct inverse is
yum install sendmail-cf
because that's what the dependencies say: sendmail-cf depends on sendmail,
Think about it.
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