yum

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Thu Oct 22 15:01:32 UTC 2009


Muayyad AlSadi wrote:
>> 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

I don't understand what you're saying there, but if yum queries the 
user's intentions when any critical package is being removed, I don't 
see there would be a problem.

> 
>> 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
> 
I don't have a usable Fedora any more, so I couldn't check. If rpm 
doesn't require python, no matter, it can be removed.

rpm-build requires perl, so if rpm-build were critical then perl would 
inherit the attribute.

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Cheers
John

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