Hi,
what do you mean by 'that wouldn't be good in some cases'.

Try for example to remove the hunspell package (without doing it) to see what will happen with the OS.
System -> Administration -> Add/Remove Software
Write in the checkbox: hinspell
Uncheck the English hunspell package and proceed to see how many packages are prepared to be removed from the system ... and don't forget to press 'cancel' of the operation for it will become 'interesting'.

Regards

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Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:34:24 -0500
From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
Subject: Re: The 'ingenious ideas' about YUM
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On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 18:06:27 -0700,
  Adam Williamson <awilliam@redhat.com> wrote:
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> 'post' is a section of a kickstart file - the type of file used for
> building Fedora live CDs. It comes after the main operation of building
> the CD is complete. Bruno simply meant that the 'yum remove somepackage'
> operation in the 'post' section of the Fedora live kickstart should be
> removed, he was not suggesting any change to the yum utility itself.

Thanks.

For example if another spin based off the livecd desktop spin actually uses
perl, then removing perl in post would have bad effects.

Though it seems the yum command was failing on the nightly compose builder,
so that command wasn't having any significant effect on those builds in
any case. But perhaps building in a different environment might have caused
it to actually remove packages during the post install phase and that wouldn't
be good in some cases.


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