yum-complete-transaction wants to remove 159 packages

Greg Woods woods at ucar.edu
Sat Jun 12 16:49:05 UTC 2010


On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 12:37 -0400, Mike Williams wrote:

> Then after a very long list of packages it wants to remove including:
> bash, yum-utils, and xorg-x11-drv-nouveau it says:
> 
> Remove      159 Package(s)
> 
> This sure seems like it will kill the system.

Your instincts are good. I trashed my F12 laptop this way because I
wasn't paying attention and let it run. I ended up having to do a fresh
install of F13 and redoing all my local mods, it was a royal pain.

--Greg




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