Confirm correct behaviour in yum update?

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2013-11-22 at 13:16 +0000, James Hogarth wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Following discussion about journald and rsyslog I recently removed
> rsyslog (system is f19 upgraded to f20 via fedup).
> 
> There is nothing listed on my system as having a dependency on
> rsyslog.
> 
> Doing yum update results in the system wanting to install (yes install
> explicitly) rsyslog as a new leaf node.
> 
> With debug set to 5 it l looks like it is picking it for install out
> of a 'standard' group but plenty of other packages in that group (such
> as ed) are skipped...
> 
> My understanding was that if you did a yum remove rsyslog it should be
> fine and array gone unless a dependency pulled it in.
> 
> What am I missing or is this a bug?

It sounds like a bug to me. I'd file it against yum with the complete
console output, to start with.
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