Hi Chris:

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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