Manage software with yum

[Andy Green]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:

>> I got the impression it was along the lines of package x requires
>> Firefox, no other package requires Firefox, so yum remove x proposes to
>> remove Firefox too, even though Firefox predated installing x and would
>> typically still be wanted.

> The above scenario looks pretty unlikely to me. It doesnt matter if
> firefox isnt require by another application. If firefox itself is a
> dependency for other applications like say ephiphany and try to run yum
> remove firefox you will get ephiphany listed to be removed as a
> dependency but if you yum remove ephiphany, it will just prompt to do
> that and not list firefox even though no other application depends on
> firefox since it directly works it out from the dependency list provided
> with the RPM package spec file. If you have any specific examples that
> you see this happening in the future do file a bug report.

Can't argue with your logic there.  Around that time I was using Rawhide
on a couple of machines: maybe that didn't help, or maybe I simply
hallucinated it.  I searched for 'yum remove' on fedoraforums and there
is a distinct lack of anyone reporting the same problem.

-Andy
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