Question on yum remove - which package ?

[David Timms]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> David Timms wrote:
> 
>>> I would have thought it would be more logical
>>> to leave anything required by another package.
>>>
>>> Of course anything that requires foo should be removed.
>>> But that is a different matter.
>> Are you willing to say which package in particular ?
> 
> Unfortunately I don't remember.
> Whatever it was has disappeared from /var/cache/yum/...
> But what I did was "yum install foo".
> Then I decided that was the wrong foo,
> so I said "yum remove foo",
> and it wanted to remove 325 packages.
> 
>> Sometimes a package is a meta-package whose job it is to install a heap
>> of sub packages.
> 
> I don't think foo was anything esoteric.
> But as I said I have forgotten exactly what it was.
Hi,
You should be able to find out by reviewing the yum log:
su -c 'gedit /var/log/yum.log'

Thanks, DaveT.