yum - lack of features

[John Summerfied]

Paul Howarth wrote:

> 
>> I tried the above once, and got in a mess;
>> "yum install" was not a straightforward inverse of "yum remove".
> 
> 
> Yes, this is true.
> 
> Consider the package sendmail-cf, which depends on sendmail.
> 
> "yum remove sendmail" will remove sendmail-cf too, because it depends on 
> sendmail.
> 
> "yum install sendmail" will install sendmail, but not sendmail-cf, since 
> sendmail itself does not depend on sendmail-cf.

The correct inverse is
yum install sendmail-cf
because that's what the dependencies say: sendmail-cf depends on sendmail,

Think about it.



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