Yum and Yumex

[Aioanei Rares]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Leslie Satenstein <lsatenstein at yahoo.com>wrote:

>   There is a serious problem with both of these programs when it comes to
> deletion.
>
> I inadvertently installed a few programs that should not have been, so with
> Yumex I selected them for deletion.
>
> I received the confirmation, and then yum went through the complete tree,
> deleting every file in the branchs.  The end result that yumex yum, rpm and
> many many many more files were expunged.
>
> I looked at the situation, since F10beta is not F10, and noone has reported
> this problem, this is a real issue that needs some attention.
>
> In a delete mode, a where-used should be done to limit deletion to
> independent dependencies.
>
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If I understand correctly, you wanted to uninstall some programs (which?)
and yum
deleted yumex, itself, rpm and many more?
-- 
Aioanei Rares
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