On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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? I agree that if I explicitly ask to remove ppp then yum is supposed to remove dependencies. What I don't understand is how naive the group commands are working. If ppp is a member of two groups then it shouldn't be removed until both groups are removed, no? And for the other example : > 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 Please don't tell me that having "fonts" as default packages in the "Electronic Lab" makes sense - if a package in the "Electronic Lab" group need fonts then that dependency should be handled in the *package* dependency and not as group members. -- 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