missing dependency python(abi) = 2.5 for package: ...

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 10:12:44 -0800,
  Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> It might be better to remove all packages with python and their dependencies and then reinstall them.  This way everything gets updated and moved on.  Otherwise he would have to update everytime selectively and skip those packages time and time again till they would get resolved :)

Did you actually try that? I wouldn't recommend that as a lot of stuff depends
on python (including yum). If someone is having trouble handling a yum update,
they probably aren't going to have much luck doing an update using what's
left of the system after removing python and all of it's dependencies.