What the H!!! is going on with Yum

[Todd Zullinger]

Jim wrote:
> I wanted to remove and reinstall Alsa-* , but when I tell yum remove
> alsa it wanted to remove just about everything on the box as
> dependencies. It wanted to remove kde* and apps that had nothing to
> do with sound.  Theres got to be a problem with Yum. What gives?
>
> I had to use rpm -e -nodeps alsa-*

Yum is just broken!  It simply refuses to let you shoot yourself in
the foot!  Bugs should be filed and torches should be lit!! ;)

Seriously, if you find that you need to use rpm --nodeps, then
whatever you are doing is not something yum will ever likely help you
with.  In most cases, you're probably better off rethinking what it is
that you're doing.

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