On 26-May-2014 5:44 pm, "Patrick O'Callaghan" <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 17:21 +0530, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
> > I like the idea of "remove" which removes just the package and "erase"
> > which erases everything automatically-created-and-hidden-by-system.
> > From time to time software start misbehaving or an update that brings
> > huge changes and it won't work properly because software has been
> > updated but don't know how to handle conflicting system files. In that
> > case a simple switch to removing things completely is helpful.
>
> If it can't handle old config files, it can't reliably remove them
> either.
>
> > Yum man page has nothing on what erase does.
>
> Yum makes no distinction between erase and remove.
>
> > I don't run a multi-user setup so that is something beyond my concern.
>
> Unless you run everything as root, you have a multi-user system.
>
> poc
>
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Then why do we have two options, erase and remove, if they are same?
-Sudhir.
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