Re: Dependency aware package removal.

[Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 duke edu>]

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 at 3:24am, Awais Riaz wrote

> I'm new to RHEL4 and have a question that has been
> bothering me.
> 
> Is there a proper 'Redhat way' of removing packages in
> a dependency aware manner on systems without X (and
> hence no system-config-packages)? Coming from a
> background using apt and yum, I find it strange that
> up2date doesn't provide this functionality. I've been
> taking this functionality for granted for years with
> other package management systems and am suprised not
> to find an out-of-the-box, all-in-one,  fully
> functional package management solution in RHEL4. Am I
> missing something? 

Erm, 'rpm -e' will refuse to remove a package if others depend on it.

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University