What the H!!! is going on with Yum

[David Timms]

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?
If you trace the dependencies {ie what yum does}, you will find the same.

>> I had to use rpm -e -nodeps alsa-*

yum from rawhide, has a new option: reinstall
Only a couple of weeks until F9 is out, or a preview release real soon now.

This works as you would expect with only a slight weirdness in the 
logging of the transactions.

DaveT.