2009/6/4 Alan Evans <ame.fedora@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Alan Evans wrote: >>> Actually, not that either. A closer examination of yum output reveals: >>> >>> removing basesystem-10.0-1.noarch. It is not required by anything >>> else. >>> >>> This is being tagged for removal by the remove-with-leaves plugin. >> >> So remove that broken plugin. It just does not work! > > It certainly does work. I wouldn't use it otherwise. I'm really fond > of being able to try out a new application, the installation of which > draws in a bunch of library packages, and then decide I don't want it > and remove the whole lot without needing to remember what was > installed incidental to the application. > > Do you have specific information about it being broken? It's certainly broken in that it removes something it shouldn't... Note the description of basesystem: ----- Basesystem defines the components of a basic Fedora system (for example, the package installation order to use during bootstrapping). *Basesystem should be in every installation of a system, and it should never be removed.* ----- > Or is it > possible that some package that I'm removing has a requirement for > basesystem that it shouldn't have? On my example system (which is x86_64 only), there is only one package which requires basesystem and that package is not required by any other. [sam@samlap ~]$ rpm -q --queryformat="%{NAME}\n" --whatrequires basesystem preload [sam@samlap ~]$ rpm -q --queryformat="%{NAME}\n" --whatrequires preload no package requires preload > Or else other packages that I'm not > trying to remove lack a requirement for basesystem that they should > have? basesystem is a meta-package. It contains no files and it's only purpose is to require the packages that comprise the "Base System" (setup,filesystem,rpm), it's like the root of the dependency tree... -- Sam -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines