From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 Fedora/1.0.3-2 Firefox/1.0.3 Description of problem: while using yum to remove cups (yum remove cups) the Yum program removed all programs that use cups in some way or the other, a total of 101 other packages was removed, including openoffice and gnome. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cups 1:1.1.23-15 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.yum remove cups 2.answer yes on questions 3. Actual Results: the Gnome windowmanager has vanished, as has the openoffice package, among several other things Expected Results: the cups package removed, not all other programs that use it, but not truelly depend on it. Additional info:
"Don't do that then." The dependencies are real. The yum program obviously didn't make it clear to you what it was going to do.
Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Removing: cups i386 1:1.1.23-15 installed 3.9 M Removing for dependencies: abiword i386 1:2.2.7-1 installed 14 M control-center i386 1:2.10.0-4 installed 6.7 M control-center i386 1:2.9.91-1 installed 6.8 M desktop-printing i386 0.18-8 installed 270 k eel2 i386 2.10.0-2 installed 1.2 M eel2-devel i386 2.10.0-2 installed 225 k evince i386 0.2.1-1 installed 765 k evolution i386 2.2.1.1-2 installed 22 M file-roller i386 2.10.0-1 installed 3.2 M gdm i386 1:2.6.0.8-1 installed 7.9 M gedit i386 1:2.10.0-2 installed 12 M gedit-devel i386 1:2.10.2-1 installed 88 k gimp i386 2:2.2.4-10 installed 25 M gimp-data-extras noarch 2.0.1-1 installed 7.6 M gimp-gap i386 2.0.2-4 installed 2.9 M gimp-help noarch 2-0.1.0.7.1 installed 21 M gimp-print-plugin i386 4.2.7-5 installed 190 k gnome-games i386 1:2.9.6-1 installed 18 M gnome-media i386 2.10.0-2 installed 5.1 M gnome-python2-libegg i386 2.10.0-2.1 installed 93 k gnome-session i386 2.10.0-1 installed 1.1 M gnome-utils i386 1:2.10.0-1 installed 13 M gnome-volume-manager i386 1.3.1-1 installed 737 k gpdf i386 2.9.3-1 installed 2.2 M gthumb i386 2.6.4-2 installed 5.0 M gtkhtml3 i386 3.6.1-1 installed 2.8 M gtksourceview i386 1.2.0-1 installed 1.2 M gtksourceview-devel i386 1.2.0-1 installed 393 k hal-cups-utils i386 0.5.3-3 installed 80 k libgal2 i386 2:2.4.1-1 installed 2.1 M libgnomecups i386 0.2.0-1 installed 209 k libgnomeprint22 i386 2.10.1-2 installed 1.1 M libgnomeprint22-devel i386 2.10.1-2 installed 1.1 M libgnomeprintui22 i386 2.10.1-1 installed 908 k libgnomeprintui22-deve i386 2.10.1-1 installed 472 k librsvg2 i386 2.9.5-2 installed 370 k librsvg2-devel i386 2.9.5-2 installed 324 k mail-notification i386 1.1-1 installed 894 k nautilus i386 2.10.0-3 installed 11 M nautilus-cd-burner i386 2.10.0-2 installed 896 k planner i386 0.13-2 installed 4.1 M redhat-lsb i386 1.3-10 installed 17 k rhythmbox i386 0.8.8-2 installed 3.3 M seahorse i386 0.7.7-1 installed 2.0 M system-config-printer i386 0.6.128-1 installed 2.2 M system-config-printer- i386 0.6.128-1 installed 439 k totem i386 1.0.1-1 installed 3.0 M xsane-gimp i386 0.95-3 installed 561 k Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 0 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 49 Package(s) Total download size: 0 Is this ok [y/N]: I think yum is making it EXTREMELY clear what it is going to do. NOTABUG on yum, either.