Johnny Hughes wrote: > Bowie Bailey wrote: > > Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> You are trying to remove kernel-utils ...you don't want to do that. > >> That might cut back the deps a bit. Also, i never remove packages with > >> yum, but with: > >> > >> rpm -e `cat list` > >> > >> But, that is just my advise. > > > > I didn't think there was any functional difference between: > > > > rpm -e package-name > > > > and > > > > yum remove package-name > > > > Isn't yum just a front-end for the rpm system? > > > There is a huge difference. > > rpm -e will tell you that you package foo (that you want to install) is > required by package bar, so don't install it. > > Yum will resolve all the dependancies and try to remove foo and bar and > anything else that is required to be removed if bar is removed, etc. > > If you are not careful, you can get things like glibc removed with "yum > remove". > > I normally want to resolve my own deps if I remove something. I once > DID remove glibc from a machine with "yum remove" ... and that is NOT > pretty to recover from :D That makes sense. I am always very careful about reviewing the dependency list when using yum for installing or removing packages, but I can see how you might accidentally remove something you didn't intend to. -- Bowie