Yum and Yumex

[Scott Robbins]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 05:47:07AM -0800, Leslie Satenstein wrote:
> 
> 
>     On Sat, 29 Nov 2008, Leslie Satenstein wrote:
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>     > Then I reviewed the installed files and uncheckmarked the entries I did
>     not want
>     > That was a mistake, as it took a whole set of dependencies with the 3 or 4
>     m
>     > odules.


That often happens when people aren't paying attention. I remember doing
yum remove -y wireless tools, coming back and finding kopete, along with
a bunch of other KDE based apps gone.  :)  (I was new to Fedora at that
time and hadn't realized how many seemingly unrelated things a yum
remove might take with it.)

As for yumex I just gave it a try as well.  It also asks for
confirmation.

So, unless something quite unusual happened, my guess is that you
weren't hit by a yum or yumex bug, you were just hit by some of the
dependency tie-ins, which can often be surprising.  :) 

I do sympathize, having experienced the same thing, and often don't
understand why package A is tied to package B, but I don't think it was
a bug in this case, unless you can be absolutely sure that it didn't ask
for confirmation--a separate window opening, saying it's going to do
this, that, and the other, and asking for an OK or cancel. 

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