Explanation of weird yum behavior

[Jonathan S Billings]

On 09/12/2011 12:55 PM, Matty Sarro wrote:
> I suppose what doesn't make sense to me - these aren't packages that
> are installed by default (running RHEL 5.5). I had to manually install
> them on this build - I only have core packages installed. So why can I
> add them with no fuss, but not remove them without everything being
> impacted? The system ran perfectly happy without them, so why are they
> suddenly dependencies for everything after they're installed?

I believe device-mapper and device-mapper-multipath are part of the base 
install.

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Jonathan Billings <jsbillin at umich.edu>
College of Engineering - CAEN - Unix and Linux Support