On 01/04/2012 01:33 AM, email builder wrote: > John, THANK YOU very much for responding -- > > > >>> The only hints I can find seem to suggest to remove >>> perl-IO-Socket-INET6, but trying to do so using yum (I don't >>> want to start using another method of package management) >>> tells me that spamassassin is a dependency and will also be >>> removed - obviously undesirable. >> If you really want to remove it, use rpm instead. >> rpm -e --nodeps perl-IO-Socket-INET6 >> But it will annoy you at every update... > That was my fear... I'm wondering why this crept up again, > since all my packages are completely up to date according > to yum. > yum only does what we tell it to do. It is possible that you have a package installed that is not from the CentOS repos, etc. If people add external repositories, it is very easy to get conflicts. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 262 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20120104/78171340/attachment-0005.sig>