Question on yum remove

[Kam Leo]

On 6/16/07, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> Steve Searle wrote:
>
> >> Why does "yum remove foo" try to remove every package
> >> using anything required by foo?
> >> Surely the rational strategy would be to leave anything
> >> required by another package?
> >
> > No.  You asked it to remove foo.  It is rational that it does as you
> > requested.  It would be irrational to:
> >  - not do as you asked, or
> >  - leave behind broken packages because it removed foo
>
> You misunderstood me (I think)
> As far as I can see, "yum remove foo" removes foo,
> and also everything that foo depends on.
> Then it removes everything that depends on the things already removed.
> And so ad infinitum.
>
> I would have thought it would be more logical
> to leave anything required by another package.

Yum installed the foo dependencies. If no other package requires those
dependencies yum removes them. If that is not the case then it is a
bug.

> Of course anything that requires foo should be removed.
> But that is a different matter.
>
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