[CentOS] yum yum or not?

Thu Apr 26 16:00:08 UTC 2012
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Shaun <centos at stinkfish.org> 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.

It wouldn't, if they are actually listed as dependencies in a
remaining package.   If they were just optional components, they are
fair game, though.

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  Les Mikesell
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