Re: Dependency aware package removal.

[Jay Lee <jlee pbu edu>]

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? 
>
> Also, apart from system-config-packages (which
> requires X), is there a dependency aware method of
> removing and adding particular package groups?

rpm -e will not remove packages that are depended upon by others without 
a --nodeps option passed to it.

Jay
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Jay Lee
Network / Systems Administrator
Information Technology Dept.
Philadelphia Biblical University
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