Yum and Yumex

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Leslie Satenstein wrote:

> There is a serious problem with both of these programs when it comes to deletion.
> 
> I inadvertently installed a few programs that should not have been, so with Yumex I selected them for deletion.
> 
> I received the confirmation, and then yum went through the complete tree, deleting every file in the branchs.  The end
> result that yumex yum, rpm and many many many more files were expunged.
> 
> I looked at the situation, since F10beta is not F10, and noone has reported this problem, this is a real issue that needs
> some attention.
> 
> In a delete mode, a where-used should be done to limit deletion to independent dependencies.

Could you provide a yum.log file from the system and the things you were 
removing?

Thanks,
-sv