removing KDE removes NetworkManager-gnome??

Nathanael D. Noblet nathanael at gnat.ca
Thu May 7 17:08:51 UTC 2009


Seth Vidal wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 7 May 2009, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:
> 
>> Jeremy Katz wrote:
>>> On Thursday, May 07 2009, Nathanael D. Noblet said:
>>>>   I ran the following command this morning:
>>>> sudo yum --disableplugin=remove-with-leaves groupremove "KDE (K 
>>>> Desktop Environment)"
>>>>
>>>> I added the remove-with-leaves because when I ran it with that it 
>>>> was removing all sorts of stand alone programs like mysql-server and 
>>>> other stuff completely unrelated to kde... In any case, the command 
>>>> above produced the following list of packages to remove...
>>> [snip]
>>>> Why are gedit, NetworkManager-gnome, gstreamer-ffmpeg and 
>>>> gstreamer-plugins-ugly being removed? Is this a bug?
>>>
>>> NetworkManager-gnome is listed in the KDE comps group (as the KDE
>>> plasmoid isn't ready yet afaik) and thus gets removed when you ask to
>>> remove the group.  I expect gedit and the gstreamer packages are due to
>>> something similar in the group or one of their deps being explicitly
>>> listed in the group
>>
>> So not a *bug* persay? Does yum not see that NetworkManager-gnome is 
>> in more than one group, and since another group requires it to leave 
>> it alone? Should it? Basically all I need to know is if this situation 
>> warrants a bug report.
> 
> it'san RFE - and I'm reasonably certain it has already been filed.
> 
> You're welcome to do it again, though.

No need to pollute bugzilla with a duplicate. Thanks for the info. and 
ignore the post just before this asking the exact same question ;)

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