Johnny Hughes wrote:
Bowie Bailey wrote:
Johnny Hughes wrote:
You are trying to remove kernel-utils ...you don't want to do that. That might cut back the deps a bit. Also, i never remove packages with
yum, but with:
rpm -e `cat list`
But, that is just my advise.
I didn't think there was any functional difference between:
rpm -e package-name
and
yum remove package-name
Isn't yum just a front-end for the rpm system?
There is a huge difference.
rpm -e will tell you that you package foo (that you want to install) is required by package bar, so don't install it.
Yum will resolve all the dependancies and try to remove foo and bar and anything else that is required to be removed if bar is removed, etc.
If you are not careful, you can get things like glibc removed with "yum remove".
I normally want to resolve my own deps if I remove something. I once DID remove glibc from a machine with "yum remove" ... and that is NOT pretty to recover from :D
That makes sense. I am always very careful about reviewing the dependency list when using yum for installing or removing packages, but I can see how you might accidentally remove something you didn't intend to.