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
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.
Johnny Hughes wrote:
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
rpm -e --nodeps 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.
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On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 15:49 +0100, Joachim Backes wrote:
Johnny Hughes wrote:
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
rpm -e --nodeps cyrus-sasl
That would be absolutely stupid ... please don't do it. It will leave in place broken packages that will fail to function. The proper way is to do my command, which will tell you the other packages that muct be removed to remove cyrus-sasl.
Leaving uninstalled requires on your system is a recipe for disaster.
(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.
Joachim Backes wrote:
Johnny Hughes wrote:
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
KIDS: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME IF YOU DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THIS DOES.
rpm -e --nodeps cyrus-sasl
This *will* remove it, regardless of dependencies. This is *NOT* the desired behaviour in this example. This normally never is the desired behaviour.
(that will fail and tell you every package that depends on something provided by cyrus-sasl)
Had he removed it with --nodeps, chances are good that most of the the system won't work anymore.
Please do refrain from giving away "tips" like that without further explanation and proper warning signs.
Ralph
So, long story short - even if I'm not using cyrus for imap/pop3, it's best to leave the sasl library alone.
Got it - thanks for filling me in on the details.
Gordon
On 1/22/07, Ralph Angenendt ra+centos@br-online.de wrote:
Joachim Backes wrote:
Johnny Hughes wrote:
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
KIDS: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME IF YOU DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THIS DOES.
rpm -e --nodeps cyrus-sasl
This *will* remove it, regardless of dependencies. This is *NOT* the desired behaviour in this example. This normally never is the desired behaviour.
(that will fail and tell you every package that depends on something provided by cyrus-sasl)
Had he removed it with --nodeps, chances are good that most of the the system won't work anymore.
Please do refrain from giving away "tips" like that without further explanation and proper warning signs.
Ralph
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