yum - lack of features
Jeff Voskamp
javoskam at uwaterloo.ca
Tue Jun 28 18:09:15 UTC 2005
mnisay wrote:
> True, but I was agreeing with the statement that `"yum install" was
> not a straightforward inverse of "yum remove"', which is true.
>
>> The inverse of a "yum remove" may require specifying multiple
>> packages for a "yum install". Consider packages a, b, and c, where b
>> and c are dependent on a. "yum remove a" will remove all three
>> packages, and "yum install b c" would be needed to get them all back
>> again.
>>
>> Paul.
>
Consider what happens if part of /usr/lib/i18n disappears and I want to
get them back from glibc and glibc-common. The --force option on rpm is
about the only way to shoe-horn things back in.
Jeff Voskamp
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