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[Muayyad AlSadi]

> The question arose in my mind when I tried to remove some package, I don't recall what it was now, but yum wanted to remove rpm as well.

make sure you don't have remove with leaves enabled
or at least make sure it's configured to deal with libs

> Python might not be marked as critical, rpm requires it and so would prevent its accidental removal.

are you sure ? cuz rpm says other wise

[alsadi at pc1 Thawab]$ rpm -qR rpm | grep -i python || echo "no python"
no python