[CentOS] Re: Using Synaptic with Cent OS 4.4

Tue Nov 14 09:51:26 UTC 2006
Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de>

Johnny Hughes wrote:
> Removing packages with auto dependency resolution is dangerous (IMHO)
> and should be avoided.
> 
> What do other think about this?

Na, it only becomes dangerous, when you set it to "auto pilot" - like
"yum -y remove glibc". 

Otherwise yum spits out a set of packages it will remove. Yes, I'd like
to think of users as being halfway smart. And able to learn, so that
they only do it once.

Removing them one by one with rpm makes you use "--force" or "--nodeps"
pretty soon ...

Cheers,

Ralph
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