Re: differrence between 'yum remove' and 'yum erase'

["Christofer C. Bell" <christofer.c.bell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 16:50 +0530, Krishna Chandra Prajapati wrote:
> remove or erase
>               Are  used  to remove the specified packages from the system as well as removing any
>               packages which depend on the package being removed.
>

But this relation is not reflexive.Just because program A is  dependent
on program B being present, it does not mean that there are not uses for
B other than program A. meld is a good example that is very useful on
its own. Why should yum remove it when A is removed.

Either you misunderstood what Krishna said or I'm misunderstanding what you're saying.  Krishna is saying that if A depends on B being present, and you remove B, then A will also be removed (since B is no longer present).  If you remove A, B will remain since nothing it depends on is being removed.

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Chris



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