yum remove half-of-my-system

[Seth Vidal]

On Wed, 13 May 2009, John Poelstra wrote:

> John Poelstra said the following on 05/13/2009 10:40 AM Pacific Time:
>> Do we consider this a bug? There was no deps chain in Fedora 10 (it was a 
>> single package add or remove) so it seems like a regression to me.
>> 
>> John
>> 
>> I got this while doing a 'yum remove sendmail' in latest rawhide.....
>
> <cut>
>
>> Transaction Summary
>> ================================================================================ 
>> Install      0 Package(s)
>> Update       0 Package(s)
>> Remove     474 Package(s)
>> 
>
> To clarify, I do not think this is a yum bug.
>


I'd need to see the rest of the depsolving output - but it seems like a 
valid removal chain.

sendmail removes smtpdaemon.

now if you want to remove sendmail and replace it with another smtpdaemon 
then you can use yum shell:

yum shell
> remove sendmail
> install postfix # (or exim or whatever)
> run


that should work correctly.

-sv