2009/10/21 Jesse Keating <jkeat...@redhat.com>: > 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.
That is the perfect idea/solution. Sadly i can't volunteer. -- LG Thomas Dubium sapientiae initium -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
