yum gone crazy!

[Paul Johnson]

I have yum-3.2.2-1.fc7.  Previously  I disabled the installonlyn
plugin.  Now yum not only insists on removing stuff, it even takes
away required packages for the current kernel.  Feast your eyes.  I
want to install the new kernel from updates-testing.  I run

# yum update kernel iwl* --enablerepo=updates-testing

[snip]
Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
 kernel                  i686       2.6.22.1-41.fc7  updates-testing    16 M
Removing:
 kernel                  i686       2.6.22.1-20.fc7  installed          46 M
 kernel                  i686       2.6.22.1-27.fc7  installed          46 M
Removing for dependencies:
 kmod-nvidia             i686       100.14.11-1.2.6.22.1_20.fc7
installed         7.5 M
 kmod-nvidia             i686       100.14.11-1.2.6.22.1_27.fc7
installed         7.5 M
 kmod-nvidia             i686       100.14.11-1.2.6.22.1_33.fc7
installed         7.5 M
 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia     i386       100.14.11-1.lvn7  installed          15 M
 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-devel  i386       100.14.11-1.lvn7  installed         616 k

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      1 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       7 Package(s)

Total download size: 16 M
Is this ok [y/N]: N
Exiting on user Command

Why is it trying to remove kernel module for the CURRENTLY RUNNING
kernel, 2.6.22.1_33.fc7, even though it does not propose to remove
that kernel? And why is it removing the xorg packages.  That's
absolutely nuts.

And now that installonlyn is no longer in use, how I stop yum from
trying to remove packages?

-- 
Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas