On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 01:52:32 +0000, Michael A. Peters <mpeters@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > My guess would be to update the headers so that it can be sure it can > > resolve dependencies correctly. That is only a guess, but it seems a > > logical reason. > > I don't think so, because you can disable repositories, clean all > headers, manually add and remove stuff, and still yum remove stuff from > repositories yum no longer watches. Well, it goes ahead with what it knows in that case. I don't know. I guess it gets its information mostly from RPM. Do the headers contain any dependency information? > I'm guessing yum just does it because it's a transaction, and it isn't > told what transaction to do it on and what not to do it on. I thought about this too, but was trying to come up with a better reason :). You are probably right, the real reason is because it is programmed to update headers on every transaction. I guess it saves it from doing it the next time it is run. Anyway, to avoid this, you can run yum with the "-C" (uppercase) option to avoid downloading headers unless needed. So run "yum -C remove <package>" if you would prefer yum not to check the repositories. Jonathan
