[CentOS] yum yum or not?

Thu Apr 26 15:45:49 UTC 2012
Jason Pyeron <jpyeron at pdinc.us>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shaun
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 11:34
> 
> On 26/04/2012 15:58, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > You can't really generalize about that.  Yum just does what the 
> > dependencies of the rpm packages you install or remove tell 
> it to do.
> >  A "yum groupinstall 'GNOME Desktop Environment'" might bring back 
> > anything  that is missing.
> > 
> 
> Well I was kinda expecting it to not remove the shared 
> dependencies leaving GNOME fairly broken.

There have been times where RHEL rpms do not list the needed dependencies (or
lis the wrong ones). If you can articulate which packages were removed (check
you logs) and what the remove should have done a bug can be filed.

-Jason 

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