Gordon Messmer wrote: >> I would imagine the "-y" would be rather dangerous, >> as "yum remove" often tries to remove many packages >> required by other applications. > > I don't think that's quite true. If you tell yum to remove a package, > it'll remove that package and any package that requires it. It doesn't > descend the dependency tree in the opposite direction (normally, I > believe there's a plugin that'll do that), and in no case will it ever > do something inconsistent like removing a package which is required by > something that yum leaves installed. I know that I have yum-installed X in the past, and it has installed X, together with Y and Z, Then I have yum-removed X, and it has listed X, Y and Z, and a large number of other packages to be uninstalled. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
