On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Les Mikesell wrote:
On CentOS 5, why does 'yum remove tomcat*' remove all of the openoffice packages?
This is a known issue in that using yum to remove packages is to use a blunt tool -- use rpm for finer control on package removals
This question ocurs often in the yum and fedora mailing lists -- see them for details
-- Russ Herrold