On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net>wrote:
On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 16:50 +0530, Krishna Chandra Prajapati wrote:
> remove or erase
> Are used to remove the specified packages from the system
as well as removing any
> packages which depend on the package being removed.
>
But this relation is not reflexive.Just because program A is dependent
on program B being present, it does not mean that there are not uses for
B other than program A. meld is a good example that is very useful on
its own. Why should yum remove it when A is removed.
Either you misunderstood what Krishna said or I'm misunderstanding what
you're saying. Krishna is saying that if A depends on B being present, and
you remove B, then A will also be removed (since B is no longer present).
If you remove A, B will remain since nothing it depends on is being removed.
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Chris