fc8 package manager

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 09:10 -0500, James McManus wrote:
> Since installing fc8, I have been having problems with the package
> manager. Sometimes when I uninstall a package it will require me to
> remove other packages, that the package I am removing uses, but that
> are not dependent on that package. For instance if I try and remove
> Grass, it will tell me that I also have to remove GDAL. Grass uses
> GDAL to read and write files, so it has to be installed for Grass to
> work properly. However, GDAL is a stand alone package, and does not
> need Grass to work. In fact a lot of other packages, such as
> Mapserver, uses GDAL, so it would create problems for those packages,
> if I removed it. I did not have this problem in previous versions of
> Fedora. What has happened to fc8? 
> 
> Jim
Use rpm -e to remove Grass not yum.
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