Question on yum remove
Timothy Murphy
tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Sat Jun 16 23:04:37 UTC 2007
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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