On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 11:13:10AM +0200, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
you're probably removing too many packages, eg some key package is a dep of MINIMAL but not in MINIMAL, and "yum remove" removes it and all its dependants.
Just as an example of this, and one that RH may move into an update sooner or later. Fedora 24's minimal comes with NetworkManager. I always remove it and use network. So, on Fedora 24, which is admittedly in beta, /etc/resolv.conf is now a part of NetworkManager, a symbolic link to /var/run/NetworkManager/resolv.conf. So,if one removes NetworkManager or even disables it, name resolution no longer works.
It seems to me that the easiest thing would be to quickly run a minimal install in VirtualBox, and if you remove anything, keep an eye on it, or, as was suggested, below.
Or replace yum remove with "rpm -e" to see if and who in $SUPPRIMER has deps in MINIMAL.