On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 09:15 -0500, Gordon McLellan wrote:

I'm trying to remove the packages for cyrus-sasl using yum, but for some reason, yum wants to uninstall everything related to e-mail, as well as X-Windows, Gnome, etc etc.

yum remove cyrus-sasl

Transaction Summary

Install 0 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 81 Package(s) Total download size: 0 Is this ok [y/N]: n Exiting on user Command

How can I just remove cyrus, without uninstalling my entire desktop?

Thanks, Gordon

cyrus-sasl is required by several things, including sendmail and evolution connector.

you can do this from the command line to see exactly what you have installed that needs cyrus-sasl

rpm -e cyrus-sasl

(that will fail and tell you every package that depends on something provided by cyrus-sasl)

My guess is that you can not remove it easily.