problem erasing

["Henricus J. Holtman" <clfest sirius com>]

I seem to have a problem erasing several packages.  For example:

[root@localhost clfest]# rpm -qa | grep emacs 
emacs-20.3-15
emacs-20.7-1
emacs-X11-20.7-1
[root@localhost clfest]# rpm -evv emacs-20.3-15
D: opening database mode 0x82 in /var/lib/rpm
D:  requires: emacs  satisfied by db packages.
D:  requires: emacs  satisfied by db packages.
D: getting list of mounted filesystems
[root@localhost clfest]# rpm -qa | grep emacs
emacs-20.3-15
emacs-20.7-1
emacs-X11-20.7-1
[root@localhost clfest]# rpm -evv --allmatches emacs-20.3-15
D: opening database mode 0x82 in /var/lib/rpm
D:  requires: emacs  satisfied by db packages.
D:  requires: emacs  satisfied by db packages.
D: getting list of mounted filesystems
[root@localhost clfest]# rpm -qa | grep emacs
emacs-20.3-15
emacs-20.7-1
emacs-X11-20.7-1

I have RedHat 6.0 with rpm-3.0.6-6x.  It seems to happen whether or
not I --rebuilddb. Can someone point me to explanatory
material/explain what is happening?  Is there some way I can
manually set my db/system straight and erase the offending packages? 
For example would rpm -ql tell me the files that I should erase,
and rpm -e --justdb clear the data base?  Is there anything else
that I should do or watch out for?  Is there
a simpler way?

			Thanx,
			Henricus