Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat

[Rahul Sundaram]

Kelly wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 17, 2007 6:45 am Jim Cornette wrote:
>> This problem is a horrible feature when removing software. I have seen
>> this problem happening with removal of some programs. The user needs to
>> be careful. The packager needs to be careful also with preventing
>> dependencies which could get you in this type of problem.
>>
>>
>> Now after reading your major problem in the tail of the message, the
>> installer could provide sort of features to install software on command,
>> like linux install "X server". Maybe one day there will be such features
>> to the installer. I don't know how hard it would be to implement. It
>> sounds complicated, but some love the challenge and positive results
>> from their efforts.
> 
> Regardless of anything else, there really ought to be a way to mark a 
> package/set of packages as IMPORTANT and get yum/whatever to issue a warning 
> ("Warning: removing this component may break the system/prevent you from 
> using GUI/whatever; are you sure you want to to do this?") if one of these 
> important packages is marked for removal.

File a request for enhancement at http://bugzilla.redhat.com

Rahul