How NSA access was built into Windows
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Jan 16 14:39:41 UTC 2007
Tim wrote:
> Tim:
>>> I'd be inclined to try using something other than YUM, though. Having
>>> read messages about yum removing one package resulting in the complete
>>> removal of Gnome or KDE, etc...
>
> Rahul Sundaram:
>> All of these happened to be user mistakes. Yum always warns about
>> dependencies.
>
> Probably due to bad habits picked up from reading how-tos on websites
> that say do a: yum -y install whatever*
It is bad not dangerous habit when you are doing installations like
that. yum -y remove <package> is inviting lots of trouble though.
Dependencies on these can very quickly escalate to lots of packages if
you pick one of the base package. Can't blame the tool in this instance.
Rahul
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