differrence between 'yum remove' and 'yum erase'

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 06/23/2010 06:30 PM, Alexander Volovics wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 06:24:57PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>
>   
>> On 06/23/2010 06:22 PM, Alexander Volovics wrote:
>>     
>>> 'info yum' does not supply any more details with respect to
>>> remove/erase then 'man yum'.
>>>       
>  
>   
>> Erase is just a alias to remove.  Zero differences.
>>     
> Again thanks Rahul.
> Maybe the developers should remove this 'redundancy'.
> Including both does suggest there might be a differrence.
>
> Alexander
>
>   

In most cases,  this is done to maintain backward compatibility. 

Rahul