Re: differrence between 'yum remove' and 'yum erase'

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On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 21:14 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Aaron Konstam
> <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>         On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 16:50 +0530, Krishna Chandra Prajapati
>         wrote:
>         > remove or erase
>         >               Are  used  to remove the specified packages
>         from the system as well as removing any
>         >               packages which depend on the package being
>         removed.
>         >
>         
>         But this relation is not reflexive.Just because program A is
>          dependent
>         on program B being present, it does not mean that there are
>         not uses for
>         B other than program A. meld is a good example that is very
>         useful on
>         its own. Why should yum remove it when A is removed. 
> 
> Either you misunderstood what Krishna said or I'm misunderstanding
> what you're saying.  Krishna is saying that if A depends on B being
> present, and you remove B, then A will also be removed (since B is no
> longer present).  If you remove A, B will remain since nothing it
> depends on is being removed.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 

I think we are all saying the same thing.
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