Yum - Removal of dependant packages.

ded my.accountnow at ntlworld.com
Wed Apr 26 16:49:45 UTC 2006


On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 11:01:18AM -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> On 4/26/06, ded <my.accountnow at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> >
> > Does Yum not remove dependant packages or did I need to do more than
> > Yum remove <package>?

> The work around is to use yum to remove the lowest level dependency
> that was installed when you installed the main package.  If you do
> this, yum will remove all software the depends on that package,
> including the software you were looking to remove (licq).

Thanks Chris, I'll give that a try this evening.

Kind Regards,
D
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