Re: Question on yum remove - which package ?

[Timothy Murphy]

David Timms wrote:

> > I would have thought it would be more logical
> > to leave anything required by another package.
> > 
> > Of course anything that requires foo should be removed.
> > But that is a different matter.
>  Are you willing to say which package in particular ? 
Unfortunately I don't remember.
Whatever it was has disappeared from /var/cache/yum/...
But what I did was "yum install foo".
Then I decided that was the wrong foo,
so I said "yum remove foo",
and it wanted to remove 325 packages.

>  Sometimes a package is a meta-package whose job it is to install a
> heap
>  of sub packages. 
I don't think foo was anything esoteric.
But as I said I have forgotten exactly what it was.


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