> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx> > To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:37:28 +0530 > Subject: Re: how to uninstall preload? > On 07/21/2010 12:05 AM, Greg Woods wrote: > > Yum in rawhide by default protects yum and everything that depends on it > which atleast minimizes such accidental damage and it is user > configurable. So you can add more packages to be protected. For > previous releases, the protect-core plugin has similar functionality. > > Rahul That's why now I am going to uninstall it using yum but without -y arguement. > From: Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> > 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. Really. >> if you use >> the -y flag, many things you wanted to keep could be gone before you >> realized what was happening. That is why -y is dangerous. >> >> --Greg Indeed. > From: Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> > In particular, if I want to remove _exactly_ one package, I will always > use rpm and not yum. But in any case we can use yum without the argument like -y. > It happens that nothing depends on preload (I know this because I > routinely remove it from systems because it modifies binaries and that > sets off annoying alerts in our integrity monitoring software). If you often use preload, for a single PC and according to you, is it good or caused any problem? Or did you see it showing any improvement in any way?? Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- 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
