Spam: get rid of cyrus-*

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> If I try to 'yum remove cyrus-sasl cyrus-imapd ...' then it asks me to
> remove mysql postfix and so on too...
> 
> Is 'rpm -e --nodeps' the only way to remove it?

cyrus-sasl and cyrus-imapd are two completely unrelated packages (well, 
not tottaly, since there's dependency, but by what they do).  Don't let 
'cyrus' prefix fool you.

cyrus-sasl is package used by many applications for user authentication. 
  Examples are cyrus-imapd, sendmail, postfix, (probably dovecot), and 
the list goes on (basically, almost any service that has support for any 
kind of non-trivial authentication protocol).  If you have any service 
running on the system, chances are you'll need cyrus-sasl, and at least 
cyrus-sasl-plain and cyrus-sasl-md5.  Optionally you might add 
cyrus-sasl-gssapi (usually used for Kerberos), cyrus-sasl-sql and/or 
cyrus-sasl-ntlm to the mix, depending on what authentication protocols 
you want to support.

cyrus-imapd is just an IMAP server.  What you probably wanted to do is 
simply "yum remove cyrus-imapd".

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