Am 12.10.2013 20:20, schrieb Bruno Wolff III: > On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 00:42:43 +0800, > P J P <pj.pandit@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> It is an often experience that I try to remove a package(ex: bluez, kernel, gnome-bluetooth) and yum(8) prompts >> me to remove nearly 200-300MB worth of critical packages, which has no connection(ex. kernel => Xchat OR bluez >> => gedit etc.) with the package I want to remove. Recently I was told to set remove_leaf_only=1 in yum.conf, >> which should help remove only the leaf node packages and nothing else. So I set it. > > The connection may not be obvious to you, but it's there. You shouldn't ever remove kernel. You may want to remove > a specific kernel (that you are't currently running), but then you need to include a version number. wrong "yum remove kernel" is uninstalling any *not running* kernel and if someone has not messed up his installation will never remove any ther package more true is that "yum remove kernel" is the way to go if you increased the amount of kernel-versions to preserve and want get rid of them all at once and keep only the running
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