On Jun 24, 2010, at 6:33 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 16:50 +0530, Krishna Chandra Prajapati wrote:
remove or erase Are used to remove the specified packages from the system as well as removing any packages which depend on the package being removed.
But this relation is not reflexive.Just because program A is dependent on program B being present, it does not mean that there are not uses for B other than program A. meld is a good example that is very useful on its own. Why should yum remove it when A is removed.
Just in case anyone is still confused, that's not what the thread was about.
Mikkel and Rahul have pointed out that the redundancy is for backwards compatibility, but I find I'm not sure which is the legacy command.
The man pages seem to focus more on remove, whereas yum --help does not mention remove the remove alias at all. And there is not "grouperase" corresponding to "groupremove"
If there is a bug here, would it be the inconsistency between the -- help option and the man pages, and the lack of deprecation notice for the legacy command? (Or conversely, the explicit mention that the alias is there for backwards- or cross-compatibility?)