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Description of problem:
Today I performed a clean workstation class install of Red Hat 8.0,
accepting the default packages.

After the newly installed system loaded for the first time, I used
the Red Hat GUI Package Management tool to install packages from the
"Authoring and Publishing" group and installed some other packages
(such as samba) at the same time.  I let the Package Management tool
install and uninstall as necessary then quit it.  Soon after, I
decided I didn't want the authoring packages after all, so I started
the Package Management tool again, and unchecked the authoring package
group, and again allowed the tool to install and uninstall, then quit.

I then restarted my system, but rather than getting the GNOME 2
display manager (gdm 2), I was presented with xdm.  On further
investigation, many GNOME-related packages had been uninstalled,
including gdm, nautilus, and evolution.

In the process of reinstalling gdm, I was told that this depended
on scrollkeeper, which in turn depended on openjade and docbook-dtds,
both of which would probably have been uninstalled when I unchecked
the authoring packages group.

My guess would be that the package management tool tries to handle
dependencies, but got a little overexcited and uninstalled anything
that depended on the authoring packages such as docbook and openjade.

For what it's worth, this issue does seem to be similar to bug 74546.


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