Porkchop, If I remember correctly this has something to do with the SASL library. The long and the short of it is yum is supposed to be a second generation installer that will get dependencies for you. This sometimes can be annoying in reverse, specially if it is cascading incorrectly, you can always use rpm to snipe individual packages. These two commands will come in handy for figuring out whats on the system and what comes from where.
*rpm -qa | grep cyrus* *yum whatprovides cyrus* Hope it helps Jesse Z On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Porkchop <[email protected]> wrote: > So I'm pretty new to yum. Really, with most of my history in Slackware, > I'm still pretty new to package management. > > I have a new CentOS server on which I use yum to handle packages. I want > to remove cyrus from the system, so: > yum remove cyrus* > > It finds the nine cyrus-related packages and helpfully locates all of > the now-unneeded dependencies. These include: gnupg, httpd (uhhh...), > mutt, openldap, passwd (what?!?), php (thats not right...), php-devel, > php-pear, postfix, spamassassin, sudo (ok seriously now... lets just > remove init and be done with it!) > > --nodeps and -x do not work in this context. Although this isn't a live > system just yet, I'd think this is something pretty basic that has to be > done... > > How do I tell yum that these items are not a road to somewhere I no > longer want to go, but rather are destinations in and of themselves? > What kind of search terms should I tell google for this kind of thing? > > Cheers, > -porkchop > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Sep 1 - BOINC > Oct 6 - Creating Firefox Extensions > Nov 3 - Bug Labs > -- Regards, Jesse K. Ziter JKZfixme.com (845) 476-8094
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