On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 09:10 -0500, James McManus wrote: > Since installing fc8, I have been having problems with the package > manager. Sometimes when I uninstall a package it will require me to > remove other packages, that the package I am removing uses, but that > are not dependent on that package. For instance if I try and remove > Grass, it will tell me that I also have to remove GDAL. Grass uses > GDAL to read and write files, so it has to be installed for Grass to > work properly. However, GDAL is a stand alone package, and does not > need Grass to work. In fact a lot of other packages, such as > Mapserver, uses GDAL, so it would create problems for those packages, > if I removed it. I did not have this problem in previous versions of > Fedora. What has happened to fc8? > > Jim Use rpm -e to remove Grass not yum. -- ======================================================================= To err is humor. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
