Jesus Jr M Salvo wrote: > BTW .... am I seeing this correctly (?). Look at the difference in > size! A reduction from 61M to 17M. Note that I am complaining, but > what happened ? I think this always happens. I take it that the size of the package to be removed is much larger because the original rpm has been expanded during its installation. A different point - the problem in your original query seemed to arise because yum wanted to remove a kernel required by a package. I wonder if it would have solved the problem if you had asked for the old kernel to stay, eg by setting tokeep=4 in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf ? -- 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