Re: yum yum or not?

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Shaun wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a bit of a newbie to CentOS though not Linux in general. I come from
> an apt-get package management mentality and I've had a few issues where
> package management actions haven't quite done what I'd expect. So I'm
> guessing it's user error! :)

Personally, having struggled a few times with apt-get (and trying to
remove old kernels in ubuntu! *ack*), I like yum.
>
> I installed GNOME and then decided that I wanted to install Xfce to try
> it out. I decided to then remove it with just 'yum remove' after playing
> with it a bit.  It seemed to uninstall a lot of GNOME stuff (presumably
> that they had in common) and so the next time I tried to use GNOME it
> looked different and was missing a few components.  Should I have just
> reverted the install of Xfce to undo it so that those dependencies
> would've have been touched or is this just how yum works?

Why uninstall, unless you're short of disk space? You can always just
change your window manager. And gnome has a ludicrous number of
interdependencies.

        mark

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