Removing evolution rpms

[Mamoru Tasaka]

JD wrote, at 09/22/2010 04:49 PM +9:00:
>    I would like to remove evolution rpms, but
> I am surprised to see that packages that were
> there before I had installed evolution packages,
> are now dependent on evolution packages, and yum
> would remove them.
> Packages like:
> gdm
> gnome-session-xsession
> desktop-effects
> gnome-session
> gnome-panel ...etc
>
> Is this a sane thing for yum to do
> or are the deps really screwed up?
>
> $ sudo yum erase evolution-data-server evolution-data-server-doc
> Setting up Remove Process
<snip>
>
> Transaction Summary
> ================================================================================
> Remove       17 Package(s)
>
> Installed size: 70 M
> Is this ok [y/N]: n
>

You are going to remove evolution-data-server, not evolution.
As you just saw it evolution-data-server is now used not only by
evolution, like gtk2 (GTK+, The GIMP ToolKit) is now used not only by
gimp.

Regards,
Mamoru