On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:48:12 +0800, KP wrote: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > > You read the dependencies backwards. > [...] > > If you remove ppp, you cannot keep any packages that depend on ppp. > > Remember that what I wanted was to remove "Dial-up Networking Support" - it is > not expected that this operation should remove all Networking! Then what is it supposed to do instead? "yum groupinfo 'Dial-up Networking Support'" tells that "ppp" is a Mandatory Package in that group. If you wanted to remove ppp, you would need to remove everything that requires ppp. Do you understand that? If so, you can tell Yum to exit its confirmation check by answering "no". > Just as when I tried to remove "Electronic Lab" - it is not expected that this > operation should remove eclipse, fonts and screensavers, right? Not right. At least the font packages you've mentioned are part of that group: $ yum groupinfo 'Electronic Lab'|grep font xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-9-100dpi xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 Same for several eclipse packages, which probably are required by eclipse and hence can only be removed if eclipse gets removed as well: $ yum groupinfo 'Electronic Lab'|grep ecli eclipse-cdt eclipse-dltk-tcl eclipse-eclox eclipse-epic eclipse-subclipse eclipse-texlipse eclipse-veditor > I am pretty sure I had fonts and screensavers before I installed "drawtiming" > and "openocd". Do you see what I mean? Not yet. Have you read the "man yum" section about "groupremove" and "remove" yet? Both commands are not the exact opposite of "groupinstall" and "install" due to dependencies on additional packages. A groupinstall can add required packages not listed in the group. Same for a normal install. "yum install foo" may pull in packages that would not be removed by "yum remove foo". A groupremove tries to remove all packages listed in the group plus anything that depends on them, which can be packages listed also in other groups. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
