On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 17:21 +0530, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
I like the idea of "remove" which removes just the package
and "erase"
which erases everything automatically-created-and-hidden-by-system.
From time to time software start misbehaving or an update that brings
huge changes and it won't work properly because software has been
updated but don't know how to handle conflicting system files. In that
case a simple switch to removing things completely is helpful.
If it can't handle old config files, it can't reliably remove them
either.
Yum man page has nothing on what erase does.
Yum makes no distinction between erase and remove.
I don't run a multi-user setup so that is something beyond my
concern.
Unless you run everything as root, you have a multi-user system.
poc