On 04/27/2012 08:26 AM, Shaun wrote:
On 27/04/2012 14:05, Les Mikesell wrote:
What did you expect:
Removing for dependencies: NetworkManager-gnome
meant before you confirmed the yum action?
Well if that was what was presented to me as an action then I obviously need to be more vigilant! :) In fact I had similar issues in Fedora and weird things happening adding/removing packages.
But then the reason why I didn't pay as much attention in the first place is because I *assumed that only that removed-pacakage and dependencies brought in by it at the install-time would be removed via a yum remove.
Maybe there are differences in the dependency management that I need to go read about..?
Yum is great for adding packages. I never use it to remove packages.
I might use it to give me a list of packages to remove and then modify that list and then do:
rpm -e $(cat list.txt)
If I do use yum to remove a package group, then I would install "X Window System", "Desktop" and any other things that might be impacted.
Yum always has, IMHO, removed too many things when using it to uninstall.