Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> I got the impression it was along the lines of package x requires >> Firefox, no other package requires Firefox, so yum remove x proposes to >> remove Firefox too, even though Firefox predated installing x and would >> typically still be wanted. > The above scenario looks pretty unlikely to me. It doesnt matter if > firefox isnt require by another application. If firefox itself is a > dependency for other applications like say ephiphany and try to run yum > remove firefox you will get ephiphany listed to be removed as a > dependency but if you yum remove ephiphany, it will just prompt to do > that and not list firefox even though no other application depends on > firefox since it directly works it out from the dependency list provided > with the RPM package spec file. If you have any specific examples that > you see this happening in the future do file a bug report. Can't argue with your logic there. Around that time I was using Rawhide on a couple of machines: maybe that didn't help, or maybe I simply hallucinated it. I searched for 'yum remove' on fedoraforums and there is a distinct lack of anyone reporting the same problem. -Andy
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