On Tuesday, April 17, 2007 6:45 am Jim Cornette wrote:
> This problem is a horrible feature when removing software. I have seen
> this problem happening with removal of some programs. The user needs to
> be careful. The packager needs to be careful also with preventing
> dependencies which could get you in this type of problem.
>
>
> Now after reading your major problem in the tail of the message, the
> installer could provide sort of features to install software on command,
> like linux install "X server". Maybe one day there will be such features
> to the installer. I don't know how hard it would be to implement. It
> sounds complicated, but some love the challenge and positive results
> from their efforts.
Regardless of anything else, there really ought to be a way to mark a
package/set of packages as IMPORTANT and get yum/whatever to issue a warning
("Warning: removing this component may break the system/prevent you from
using GUI/whatever; are you sure you want to to do this?") if one of these
important packages is marked for removal.
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