----- "Jesse Keating" <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 13:28 -0400, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:22:04PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > IIUC, you're mis-interpreting the YUM output there. > NetworkManager-gnome > > > doesn't have a dependancy on KDE, rather it happens to be part of > the > > > "KDE (K Desktop Environment)" group. ie in doing a 'groupremove' > > > you explicitly asked YUM to remove 'NetworkManager-gnome' since > its > > > in that group. If you had just done an package level remove, eg > > > 'yum remove kde*' then NetworkManager-gnome would not have been > removed > > > > You're correct in that removing the KDE group attempts to remove > the > > NetworkManager-gnome rpm. I remembered uninstalling KDE also > removed > > NetworkManager-gnome which borked my laptop until I re-installed > the > > RPM. That's something that should be fixed. > > > Group removals are dangerous. Groups can share packages between > them. > Perhaps somebody should submit a patch to yum that gives groupremove > a > flag that says don't remove any package that is listed in any other > group. > Maybe just a confirmation (i.e: "The following packages are also listed in other groups: superpackage -- awesomegroup, importantgroup uselesspackage -- evilgroup Are you sure you want to remove them? (Y/N)" ? -Charley > > -- > Jesse Keating > Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! > identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
