JD wrote, at 09/22/2010 04:49 PM +9:00:
I would like to remove evolution rpms, but
I am surprised to see that packages that were
there before I had installed evolution packages,
are now dependent on evolution packages, and yum
would remove them.
Packages like:
gdm
gnome-session-xsession
desktop-effects
gnome-session
gnome-panel ...etc
Is this a sane thing for yum to do
or are the deps really screwed up?
$ sudo yum erase evolution-data-server evolution-data-server-doc
Setting up Remove Process
<snip>
Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Remove 17 Package(s)
Installed size: 70 M
Is this ok [y/N]: n
You are going to remove evolution-data-server, not evolution.
As you just saw it evolution-data-server is now used not only by
evolution, like gtk2 (GTK+, The GIMP ToolKit) is now used not only by
gimp.
Regards,
Mamoru