Steve Searle wrote: >> Why does "yum remove foo" try to remove every package >> using anything required by foo? >> Surely the rational strategy would be to leave anything >> required by another package? > > No. You asked it to remove foo. It is rational that it does as you > requested. It would be irrational to: > - not do as you asked, or > - leave behind broken packages because it removed foo You misunderstood me (I think) As far as I can see, "yum remove foo" removes foo, and also everything that foo depends on. Then it removes everything that depends on the things already removed. And so ad infinitum. I would have thought it would be more logical to leave anything required by another package. Of course anything that requires foo should be removed. But that is a different matter. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
