removing KDE removes NetworkManager-gnome??

Nathanael D. Noblet nathanael at gnat.ca
Thu May 7 16:14:02 UTC 2009


Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Thursday, May 07 2009, Nathanael D. Noblet said:
>>   I ran the following command this morning:
>> sudo yum --disableplugin=remove-with-leaves groupremove "KDE (K Desktop  
>> Environment)"
>>
>> I added the remove-with-leaves because when I ran it with that it was  
>> removing all sorts of stand alone programs like mysql-server and other  
>> stuff completely unrelated to kde... In any case, the command above  
>> produced the following list of packages to remove...
> [snip]
>> Why are gedit, NetworkManager-gnome, gstreamer-ffmpeg and  
>> gstreamer-plugins-ugly being removed? Is this a bug?
> 
> NetworkManager-gnome is listed in the KDE comps group (as the KDE
> plasmoid isn't ready yet afaik) and thus gets removed when you ask to
> remove the group.  I expect gedit and the gstreamer packages are due to
> something similar in the group or one of their deps being explicitly
> listed in the group

So not a *bug* persay? Does yum not see that NetworkManager-gnome is in 
more than one group, and since another group requires it to leave it 
alone? Should it? Basically all I need to know is if this situation 
warrants a bug report.


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