Question on yum remove

Steve Searle steve at stevesearle.com
Sun Jun 17 00:01:03 UTC 2007


Around 12:04am on Sunday, June 17, 2007 (UK time), Timothy Murphy scrawled:

> 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.

Apologies - I didn't read your email carefully enough.  I agree it
shouldn't be doing that. 

Steve

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