Question on yum remove

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On Sunday 17 June 2007 09:57:48 am Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 23:22 +0100, Steve Searle wrote:
> > Around 11:11pm on Saturday, June 16, 2007 (UK time), Timothy Murphy 
scrawled:
> > > Why does "yum remove foo" try to remove every package
> > > using anything required by foo?
> > > Surely the rational strategy would be to leave anything

  I am not sure what yum does or doesn't do, but it seems to me what it should 
do to remove foo is remove any thing foo needs which is NOT needed by 
anything else. It should also remove anything which needs foo. Not sure what 
else you could do really.