[ydl-gen] stuff

[Christopher Murtagh]

 Actually, the whole point of using yum is to remove dependencies, etc.. This 
has *always* been the point of yum. I don't know who gave you that advice, 
but they were clearly mistaken. Otherwise, if you do rpm -e packagename, but 
5 other packages require packagename, then you'll have to manually remove 
those as well. You certainly don't want to delete packages without deleting 
things that depend on them.

 So, yes, in some contexts, you might try to remove a package that will 
cripple your system should you follow all dependencies. The point there is 
*don't delete that package - your system needs it*.

Cheers,

Chris


On Tuesday 16 December 2008 01:50:17 pm Derick Centeno wrote:
> Background:  Some years ago I recall that it was advised to not use
> yum in the way you recommended.  Yum when used to erase anything was
> so thorough it removed not only the target application but also
> whatever dependencies it used and dependencies related to them.
> Resulting in a crippled system.  This problem happened to me several
> times... the safest way I found around using yum to remove anything
> was to use rpm -e instead.
>
> Question:  Has this situation regarding yum changed or been corrected?
>
> Thanks for your time in clarifying this.
>
> Sincerely, Derick.
>
> On Dec 16, 2008, at 11:11 AM, Christopher Murtagh wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 December 2008 04:46:46 am Kevin Diggs wrote:
> >> I think someone posted a query on how to get the format error in
> >> /proc/cpuinfo mails to root to stop. If you replace
> >> /etc/cron.hourly/mcelog.cron with:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> >  Of course, there's an easier way to do this:
> >
> > yum erase mcelog
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Chris
> >
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