how to uninstall preload?

[Parshwa Murdia]

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com>
> To: Community support for Fedora users <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:37:28 +0530
> Subject: Re: how to uninstall preload?
> On 07/21/2010 12:05 AM, Greg Woods wrote:
>
> Yum in rawhide by default protects yum and everything that depends on it
> which atleast minimizes such accidental damage and it is user
> configurable.  So you can add more packages to be protected.  For
> previous releases, the protect-core plugin has similar functionality.
>
> Rahul


That's why now I am going to uninstall it using yum but without -y arguement.


> From: Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net>

> I know that I have yum-installed X in the past,
> and it has installed X, together with Y and Z,
> Then I have yum-removed X,
> and it has listed X, Y and Z, and a large number of other packages
> to be uninstalled.


Really.


>> if you use
>> the -y flag, many things you wanted to keep could be gone before you
>> realized what was happening. That is why -y is dangerous.
>>
>> --Greg


Indeed.


> From: Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>

> In particular, if I want to remove _exactly_ one package, I will always
> use rpm and not yum.


But in any case we can use yum without the argument like -y.


> It happens that nothing depends on preload (I know this because I
> routinely remove it from systems because it modifies binaries and that
> sets off annoying alerts in our integrity monitoring software).


If you often use preload, for a single PC and according to you, is it
good or caused any problem? Or did you see it showing any improvement
in any way??


Regards,
Parshwa Murdia