> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:25:46 +0100 > Subject: Re: how to uninstall preload? > Parshwa Murdia wrote: >>> From: Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> > 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. Oh, I see. > Suppose I yum-install A, and it brings in A,B and C. > If I yum-remove A, is it guaranteed that it will only remove A,B and C? > > As I mentioned, at some point in the fairly recent past, > I tried this, and yum wanted to remove more than A,B and C. I think if you don't use -y option with yum, then it asks you if to uninstall or not a particular dependency, though I have not tried this. > 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 yes, but wouldn't it become more complicated? 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
