/Good evening (at least it is in Austria!) I'm new to Linux & Fedora, last messed with Unix in about '89... I've (eventually) installed F9, with a selection of odds & ends, and found that yumex SEEMED to be a better way of updating & installing than the Gnome Add/Remove Software. My problem comes when I try to remove "something" (e.g. CUPS) when yumex seems to consider every application that uses or links to CUPS as being a dependency. In my naive, trusting way (!), I assumed the 223 listed dependencies were sort of .dlls which CUPS had added to everything that needed to print. Oh, how wrong can you be????? 223 deleted apps later & I had a bare bones system - even yumex was gone! & most of Gnome! SO, after a day & half fiddling, I got back to a working system again (95%). I posted the situation on FedoraForum & was advised to bring it to the attention of "Them what looks after Yum", but I can't find out how to contact the yum team. Any suggestions on how one contacts the yum team??? Thanks Dave/ Good evening Yum-Team As I now have an address, please find above the note I put on the Fedora list. I don't expect you to be able to resurrect my system, nor to prevent me chucking out the baby with the bath-water again in the future! What I would like to do is to ask whether some sort of indication could be made in yum(ex) to show that a package like Cups has a special status & cannot be (safely) removed? I had a similar experience when (3 days after getting my first F9 working), I tried to remove not-needed dial-up packages & ended up with no Network Manager. It seems to me that sometimes the definition of "dependency" is not clear & unique. In my vocabulary, a dependency is something which must be present in order for something else to function; a relationship like Cups-Firefox I would consider more a master-service relationship where either master or service can be removed without destroying the other. Thanks for all the work you do keeping systems available and at such a high standard Dave _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
