yum remove half-of-my-system

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 13:42 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> John Poelstra (poelstra at redhat.com) said: 
> > 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.....
> 
> sendmail provides smtpdaemon. Something very very core on your system
> reqiures that, chaos then ensues.

...and the reason you didn't see it on F10 is likely that you had
something else which provides smtpdaemon installed as well (postfix,
exim...), so removing sendmail didn't break the provision of smtpdaemon.
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