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Description of problem:

The point of plugins is that you can add and remove them without affecting the base app. A mandatory plugin is nonsensical.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

This has been seen on CentOS 5, 6 and 7.


How reproducible:

$ sudo rpm -e yum-plugin-fastestmirror

(or on EL5, yum-fastestmirror)



Actual results:

error: Failed dependencies:
        yum-plugin-fastestmirror is needed by (installed) yum-3.4.3-132.el7.centos.0.1.noarch


Expected results:

The plugin is uninstalled.


Additional info:

Yes, I realize the plugin can be disabled at run time by editing /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/fastestmirror.conf.  But if someone disables it long-term, why have it installed?

This seems to be a CentOS specific packaging issue. Neither upstream yum.spec, nor RHEL yum packages list yum-plugin-fastestmirror as a Requires, so the latter can be easily removed. I'm not sure where this should be reported, maybe try asking around on CentOS forums or IRC.