--- On Sun, 11/30/08, Scott Robbins scottro@nyc.rr.com wrote: From: Scott Robbins scottro@nyc.rr.com Subject: Re: Yum and Yumex To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" fedora-test-list@redhat.com Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 9:43 AM
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 05:47:07AM -0800, Leslie Satenstein wrote:
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008, Leslie Satenstein wrote: > Then I reviewed the installed files and uncheckmarked the entries
I did
not want > That was a mistake, as it took a whole set of dependencies with
the 3 or 4
m > odules.
That often happens when people aren't paying attention. I remember doing yum remove -y wireless tools, coming back and finding kopete, along with a bunch of other KDE based apps gone. :) (I was new to Fedora at that time and hadn't realized how many seemingly unrelated things a yum remove might take with it.)
As for yumex I just gave it a try as well. It also asks for confirmation.
So, unless something quite unusual happened, my guess is that you weren't hit by a yum or yumex bug, you were just hit by some of the dependency tie-ins, which can often be surprising. :)
I do sympathize, having experienced the same thing, and often don't understand why package A is tied to package B, but I don't think it was a bug in this case, unless you can be absolutely sure that it didn't ask for confirmation--a separate window opening, saying it's going to do this, that, and the other, and asking for an OK or cancel.