On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 13:25 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Parshwa Murdia wrote: > > >> 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. > > Yes. > It was a KDE package that I installed, I don't recall which. > When I yum-removed it, it tried to take almost all my KDE packages > with it. > So I removed it with rpm. > This was some time ago, Fedora-12 or possibly Fedora-11. > It is conceivable yum has changed since then > in such a way that this could not happen now. > > -- > 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 > hey, An easy way to remove a recently installed package is using the "yum history" command. Please look it up, seth has been posting about it IIRC. >From one of his posts on the devel list: > A handy alternative to looking at the yum.log: > > yum history list > > then you can see the transactions by date. > > then: > > yum history info <transaction id> > > to get a lot of info on what changed. > > http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumHistory > > for more info. > > -sv > > Just thought it was worth mentioning. regards, Ankur -- 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
