[CentOS] trying to remove cyrus-sasl

Mon Jan 22 14:49:39 UTC 2007
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

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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