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. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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