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. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de> University of Kaiserslautern,Computer Center [RHRK], Systems and Operations, High Performance Computing, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, PO Box 3049, Germany -------------------------------------------------- Phone: +49-631-205-2438, FAX: +49-631-205-3056 http://hlrwm.rhrk.uni-kl.de/home/staff/backes.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5184 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070122/d2427042/attachment-0005.bin>