On 27/04/2012 14:56, Markku Kolkka wrote: > So the real problem is that you don't understand the directionality of > dependencies. Almost certainly :) > "yum install packagename" installs packagename + anything > that packagename requires. "yum remove packagename" removes packagename > + anything that requires packagename. The set of packages required by > packagename and the set of packages that require packagename are two > entirely different things. Yes, I thought "yum remove packagename" would remove the packagename plus any dependencies that were INSTALLED by the "yum install packagename" action. That is, I expected it to NOT remove dependency packages that were already present when "yum install packagename" was performed. So a misunderstanding on my part. I just need to be really careful about the remove command in future.