Description of problem: When ading some packages removing them will delete all the system. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1.yum install mysql-devel libjpeg-devel pcre pcre-devel perl-MIME-Lite perl- Device-SerialPort netpbm ffmpeg-devel ffmpeg-libs perl-DateManip 2.yum erase mysql-devel libjpeg-devel pcre pcre-devel perl-MIME-Lite perl- Device-SerialPort netpbm ffmpeg-devel ffmpeg-libs perl-DateManip 3.About everything on the computer become a dependency that neads to be removed. Actual results: I was sitting there with a system with no KDE no pirut and no yum so what was I suposed to do? fresh install. Expected results: Remove the packages I instaled earlier withour removing the rest of my system. Additional info:
So if you did a fresh install you don't have your /var/log/yum.log from the system? If you do - please attach it.
If you find the yum.log you'll find that pcre was not installed when you ran that command. It was already installed so yum happily ignored it and moved along. Then When you asked yum to remove pcre that pulled out 'grep' as grep depends on pcre - and LOTS of things depend on grep.