removing KDE removes NetworkManager-gnome??

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Thu May 7 17:04:37 UTC 2009



On Thu, 7 May 2009, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:

> 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.

it'san RFE - and I'm reasonably certain it has already been filed.

You're welcome to do it again, though.

-sv




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