On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 18:17 +0200, Lennie Johansson wrote: > Hi all thx 4 your gr8 tool YUM. > Wondering, i want to get rid of a package YUM suggest to remove 44 others. > Ok got that the 44 packages are able to use what i want to get rid of but it > isnt nessesery i judge that. > How to force YUM to just remove the packages i want? are there any flags or > steps i have to do? > Noobish me. > Any help? if I understand you correctly you are running: yum remove somepackage and yum is prompting you b/c it has to remove 44 other packages in order to remove that one. If you want to not be prompted for confirmation then add the -y flag: yum -y remove somepackage However, be very careful doing that on removes - it is a good way to end up with a completely non-functional system. -sv
