On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 01:14 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
>
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Bob Gustafson wrote:
>
> >
> > Ahh, but with yum, you must be very careful when deleting/removing a
> > component, because of all the dependencies that get ripped out too.
>
> Umm, no.
>
> When you remove a package, the things which depend on it will be removed,
> yes. That's how package dependencies work in EVERY PACKAGE MANAGER.
>
> You'll also note that unless you tell it otherwise yum always asks
> the user to confirm what they have asked to do.
>
>
> > This is because you did not include a usage count for each component.
>
> What on earth are you talking about? A usage count? Do you understand how
> dependencies work?
>
> PkgX requires PkgY - both are installed
>
> if I remove PkgY from my system then to maintain consistency I must remove
> PkgX, too.
>
> If there are pkgs that depend on pkgX then I must mark them to be removed,
> too.
>
> What is the situation that you are seeing where yum is:
>
> 1. removing things it is not ASKED to remove?
Bug #215621 ("LOTS of dependencies ERASED")
> 2. removing things without the explicit consent of the user?
The problem with the current status of Yum is that the user does not
have enough information to know whether a dependency removal is OK.
Also, at least a couple of years ago, if the user did not make a
decision within a certain number of seconds, the components were erased.
>
> -sv
>
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