Re: yum - lack of features

[Timothy Murphy <tim birdsnest maths tcd ie>]

Sean O Sullivan wrote:

>> 1) Can't force a reinstall of package
> 
> yum remove package
> yum install package

My impression is that this is - or was? - rather dangerous.
Doesn't "yum remove <pkg>" also remove any packages which require <pkg>,
which may be rather a lot?

I tried the above once, and got in a mess;
"yum install" was not a straightforward inverse of "yum remove".

Hopefully I'm wrong?

Personally, I would use rpm if I wanted to remove and re-install a package.

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