David Timms wrote: >> 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. > Are you willing to say which package in particular ? Unfortunately I don't remember. Whatever it was has disappeared from /var/cache/yum/... But what I did was "yum install foo". Then I decided that was the wrong foo, so I said "yum remove foo", and it wanted to remove 325 packages. > Sometimes a package is a meta-package whose job it is to install a heap > of sub packages. I don't think foo was anything esoteric. But as I said I have forgotten exactly what it was. -- 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
