What the H!!! is going on with Yum

[Jim]

Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Jim wrote:
>   
>> I wanted to remove and reinstall Alsa-* , but when I tell yum remove
>> alsa it wanted to remove just about everything on the box as
>> dependencies. It wanted to remove kde* and apps that had nothing to
>> do with sound.  Theres got to be a problem with Yum. What gives?
>>
>> I had to use rpm -e -nodeps alsa-*
>>     
>
> Yum is just broken!  It simply refuses to let you shoot yourself in
> the foot!  Bugs should be filed and torches should be lit!! ;)
>
> Seriously, if you find that you need to use rpm --nodeps, then
> whatever you are doing is not something yum will ever likely help you
> with.  In most cases, you're probably better off rethinking what it is
> that you're doing.
>
>   
Well I must say, theres a lot of good advise in that statement.