On Apr 18, 2:22 pm, jcbollinger <john.bollin...@stjude.org> wrote:
> [ ..... ]
>
> 1) The dependent package is managed by Puppet.  In this case, you must
> ensure it absent too, else you cannot achieve a consistent
> configuration.  You will either get Puppet failures or flip-flops
> between whether httpd is installed or not.  (I am fairly sure that
> this is why the yum Package provider uses "rpm -e" instead of "yum
> remove" in the first place.)  To fix it, you have to ensure the
> dependent package absent too, and in that case you can address your
> original problem by twiddling the dependent package's dependencies.
> For example:
>
If I understand you correctly, how do one know about the packages that
depend on a certain package? Even though someone may know about the
"dependent" packages, do you mean to list all the packages with "no"
parameter? Cheers!!

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