Yum and Yumex

[Seth Vidal]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Leslie Satenstein wrote:

> 
> 
> --- On Wed, 12/3/08, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
>       From: Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>
>       Subject: Re: Yum and Yumex
>       To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
>       Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 11:13 AM
> 
> On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 10:04 -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> > My beef is with the analogy not the tool
> The analogy goes to:
> Customer:  I ran a package removal request with -y or confirmed without
> noticing that by removing glibc I was going to remove all of my
> distribution!!!
> Vendor:  Well, don't do that.
> I think that's a perfectly valid analogy.
> -- 
> Jesse Keating
> Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
> identi.ca:
>  http://identi.ca/jkeating
> 
> The right response should be that (other) packages are using glibc. Glibc cannot be removed.
>


yum install yum-protect-packages

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