Manage software with yum

[Andy Green]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:

>> You can use yum remove, but it seems a bit dangerous.  It sometimes
>> seems to suggest to remove dependent packages that are actually still
>> wanted.

> Do you have any examples of this? Any bug reports?

Sorry, I saw this some months ago and I did not bug it.

I got the impression it was along the lines of package x requires
Firefox, no other package requires Firefox, so yum remove x proposes to
remove Firefox too, even though Firefox predated installing x and would
typically still be wanted.

One at least got the chance to review its proposal before saying yes.

-Andy
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