Can I delete *FC3* files from my FC4 system?

[Nat Gross]

On 1/24/06, Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
> Any of those may work *too* well. Be sure to eyeball the list of
> proposed deletions.
>
> On the other tentacle, some packages have "fc3", others "FC3", and I
> don't know if yum or rpm is case sensitive. On yet another tentacle,
> this does not handle the case of duplicate RPMs that do not have the
> Fedora version in the file name.
Woa! Listen to this! I now tried (per your input) lowercase fc3. And
what a list I got!
I need the eyeballs of many here before I hit 'y' on yum. (This
machine is now primarily a databse server, and I dont mind the
cleanup. But the FC4 (thats a 4) dependencies worry me. Here goes:
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--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved

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 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
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Removing:
 iptstate                i386       1.4-1.1.fc3.rf   installed          50 k
 nmap                    i386       2:3.93-0.1.fc3.rf  installed         2.6 M
 nmap-frontend           i386       2:3.93-0.1.fc3.rf  installed          78 k
 nscd                    i386       2.3.6-0.fc3.1    installed          82 k
 perl-Digest-SHA1        i386       2.10-1.1.fc3.rf  installed         100 k
 redhat-artwork          i386       0.124-1.0.fc3.kde  installed         5.2 M
 rhythmbox               i386       0.8.8-2.1.fc3.rf  installed         3.4 M
 rsync                   i386       2.6.6-1.1.fc3.rf  installed         506 k
 sarg                    i386       2.0.5-2.fc3.mack  installed         438 k
 speex                   i386       1.0.5-1.1.fc3.rf  installed         304 k
 syslinux                i386       3.11-1.1.fc3.rf  installed         1.1 M
Removing for dependencies:
 HelixPlayer             i386       1:1.0.6-1.fc4.2  installed         9.0 M
 NetworkManager-gnome    i386       0.5.1-1.FC4.4    installed         294 k
 arts                    i386       8:1.5.0-1.3.fc4.kde  installed         4.3 M
 control-center          i386       1:2.10.1-6       installed         6.6 M
 dbus-qt                 i386       0.33-3.2.fc4.kde  installed          64 k
 eel2                    i386       2.10.0-2         installed         1.2 M
 file-roller             i386       2.10.0-1         installed         3.2 M
 firstboot               noarch     1.3.42-1         installed         800 k
 gdm                     i386       1:2.6.0.8-16     installed         7.9 M
 gedit                   i386       1:2.10.2-4       installed          12 M
 gnome-applets           i386       1:2.10.1-9       installed          28 M
 gnome-desktop           i386       2.10.0-5         installed         1.3 M
 gnome-media             i386       2.10.2-4         installed         5.0 M
 gnome-netstatus         i386       2.10.0-4         installed         909 k
 gnome-panel             i386       2.10.1-10.2      installed         8.4 M
 gnome-pilot             i386       2.0.13-2         installed         1.7 M
 gnome-pilot-conduits    i386       2.0.13-1         installed         394 k
 gnome-session           i386       2.10.0-2         installed         1.2 M
 gnome-utils             i386       1:2.10.0-4       installed          13 M
 gnome-volume-manager    i386       1.3.1-1          installed         737 k
 gstreamer-plugins       i386       0.8.8-9          installed         3.6 M
 k3b                     i386       0.12.10-0.1.fc4.kde  installed          10 M
 kdeadmin                i386       7:3.5.0-1.0.fc4.1  installed         4.2 M
 kdeartwork              i386       3.5.0-1.0.fc4.kde  installed         8.8 M
 kdebase                 i386       6:3.5.0-1.2.fc4.kde  installed          53 M
 kdelibs                 i386       6:3.5.0-4.2.fc4.kde  installed          43 M
 kdenetwork              i386       7:3.5.0-1.3.fc4.kde  installed          26 M
 kdeutils                i386       6:3.5.0-2.0.fc4.kde  installed         9.1 M
 libgail-gnome           i386       1.1.0-5          installed          59 k
 metacity                i386       2.10.3-1         installed         8.5 M
 mkbootdisk              i386       1.5.2-5          installed         6.9 k
 nautilus                i386       2.10.0-4         installed          11 M
 nautilus-cd-burner      i386       2.10.0-2         installed         896 k
 nss_ldap                i386       234-4            installed         2.7 M
 openh323                i386       1.15.6-1.FC4     installed          25 M
 perl-Digest-HMAC        noarch     1.01-14          installed          11 k
 perl-Net-DNS            i386       0.49-2           installed         401 k
 pinentry-qt             i386       0.7.1-4          installed         126 k
 qt                      i386       1:3.3.5-11.1.fc4.kde  installed   
     8.9 M
 redhat-lsb              i386       1.3-10           installed          17 k
 spamassassin            i386       3.0.4-2.fc4      installed         1.8 M
 system-config-display   noarch     1.0.29-1         installed         610 k
 tsclient                i386       0.132-6          installed         411 k
 xine-lib                i386       1.1.0-1.2.fc4    installed          11 M

Transaction Summary
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Install      0 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove      55 Package(s)
Total download size: 0
Is this ok [y/N]: N
Exiting on user Command
Complete!

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Thank you all.
-nat