Yum is going berserk!

[Tim]

On Sat, 2012-06-02 at 12:04 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> I kept an eye on the terminal to see what was going on, and it's a
> good thing, because suddenly it began spewing all sorts of packages
> that it was going to erase.  I used ^C to kill it because I didn't
> want my system hosed.

And this is why "yum -y" command lines are a bad idea.  Any time I see
someone suggest "yum -y [something]" on this list, I cringe.  Because
people will blindly follow that advice, and sometimes will hose their
systems.

Yes, I saw you use a different command line in your post, but was using
your experience as a general example.

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