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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070122/3702b747/attachment-0005.sig>