<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Yes, you read me correctly<br><br>For uninstalls, I think we are forced to using rpm, which prompts to indicate what it is taking along with the module you requested for the uninstall.<br><br>yum works in reverse (uninstalls), quietly, as it does in forward gear (updates or installs).<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 11/25/08, Aioanei Rares <i><schaiba@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Aioanei Rares <schaiba@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: Yum and Yumex<br>To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" <fedora-test-list@redhat.com><br>Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 9:05 AM<br><br><div id="yiv558538039"><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Leslie Satenstein <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:lsatenstein@yahoo.com">lsatenstein@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<td valign="top"><span style="font-family: monospace;">There is a serious problem with both of these programs when it comes to deletion.<br><br>I inadvertently installed a few programs that should not have been, so with Yumex I selected them for deletion.<br>
<br>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.<br><br>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.<br>
<br>In a delete mode, a where-used should be done to limit deletion to independent dependencies. <br></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br>--<br>fedora-test-list mailing list<br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:fedora-test-list@redhat.com">fedora-test-list@redhat.com</a><br>
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<div><br><br clear="all">If I understand correctly, you wanted to uninstall some programs (which?) and yum </div>
<div>deleted yumex, itself, rpm and many more? <br>-- <br>Aioanei Rares<br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:schaiba@fedoraproject.org">schaiba@fedoraproject.org</a><br>"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese." --Charles de Gaulle <br>
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