Question on yum remove

[Timothy Murphy]

Steve Searle wrote:

>> Why does "yum remove foo" try to remove every package
>> using anything required by foo?
>> Surely the rational strategy would be to leave anything
>> required by another package?
> 
> No.  You asked it to remove foo.  It is rational that it does as you
> requested.  It would be irrational to:
>  - not do as you asked, or
>  - leave behind broken packages because it removed foo

You misunderstood me (I think)
As far as I can see, "yum remove foo" removes foo,
and also everything that foo depends on.
Then it removes everything that depends on the things already removed.
And so ad infinitum.

I would have thought it would be more logical
to leave anything required by another package.

Of course anything that requires foo should be removed.
But that is a different matter.



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