yum - lack of features

[Jeff Voskamp]

mnisay wrote:

> True, but I was agreeing with the statement that `"yum install" was 
> not a straightforward inverse of "yum remove"', which is true.
>
>> The inverse of a "yum remove" may require specifying multiple 
>> packages for a "yum install". Consider packages a, b, and c, where b 
>> and c are dependent on a. "yum remove a" will remove all three 
>> packages, and "yum install b c" would be needed to get them all back 
>> again.
>>
>> Paul.
>
Consider what happens if part of /usr/lib/i18n disappears and I want to 
get them back from glibc and glibc-common.  The --force option on rpm is 
about the only way to shoe-horn things back in.

Jeff Voskamp