[CentOS] yum remove 'tomcat*'?

[R P Herrold]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Les Mikesell wrote:

> On CentOS 5, why does 'yum remove tomcat*' remove all of the openoffice 
> packages?

This is a known issue in that using yum to remove packages is 
to use a blunt tool -- use rpm for finer control on package 
removals

This question ocurs often in the yum and fedora mailing lists 
-- see them for details

-- Russ Herrold