Yum and Yumex

Thu Dec 4 02:46:16 UTC 2008

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 06:20:20PM -0800, Leslie Satenstein wrote:
> The right response should be that (other) packages are using glibc. 
> Glibc cannot be removed.

I think a reasonable solution would be to have whatever yum plugin 
installed and configured by default to prevent removal of packages 
that would break yum itself and other basic tools.

Do other distributions' package management tools like apt handle this 
case?