On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 08:39 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
>
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Bob Gustafson wrote:
>
> >
> > Bug #215621 ("LOTS of dependencies ERASED")
>
>
> And there was nothing accidental or inadvertent about that in that bug
> report. You were upset that Evolution has a hard dependency on
> openldap.
>
>
> >> 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.
>
> If you see that evolution is dependent on the pkg you use and you want to
> continue using evolution, then you shouldn't say 'Y' to the transaction.
>
>
> > 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.
>
> There has NEVER been a time when yum would do something without the user
> explicitly passing a -y on the command line, the config file or answering
> 'Y' to the prompt.
>
> The default response has been 'No' forever.
>
> The only problem I see here is that Evolution depending on openldap was a
> surprise to you.
And 152 other packages that got whacked too..
>
> -sv
>
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