On 04/27/2012 04:49 PM, Shaun wrote:
On 27/04/2012 14:56, Markku Kolkka wrote:
So the real problem is that you don't understand the directionality of dependencies.
Almost certainly :)
"yum install packagename" installs packagename + anything that packagename requires. "yum remove packagename" removes packagename
- anything that requires packagename. The set of packages required by
packagename and the set of packages that require packagename are two entirely different things.
Yes, I thought "yum remove packagename" would remove the packagename plus any dependencies that were INSTALLED by the "yum install packagename" action. That is, I expected it to NOT remove dependency packages that were already present when "yum install packagename" was performed.
So a misunderstanding on my part.
I just need to be really careful about the remove command in future.
Give us the history listing (from info) and let us se what was done to it.