On CentOS 5, why does 'yum remove tomcat*' remove all of the openoffice
packages?
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Les Mikesell
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Les Mikesell wrote:> On CentOS 5, why does 'yum remove tomcat*' remove all of the openoffice > packages? >That would be because openoffice requires tomcat to install it ... if you tell yum that you want to remove tomcat ... since openoffice requires tomcat, it has to also remove openoffice. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070730/08b45f9b/attachment.sig>
Johnny Hughes wrote:> Les Mikesell wrote: >> On CentOS 5, why does 'yum remove tomcat*' remove all of the openoffice >> packages? >> > That would be because openoffice requires tomcat to install it ... if > you tell yum that you want to remove tomcat ... since openoffice > requires tomcat, it has to also remove openoffice. >It seems bizarre for an office suite to depend on a java servlet engine, but OK... Now how do I get one that works under Sun java? And is there a way to get eclipse without gcj? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Les Mikesell wrote:> On CentOS 5, why does 'yum remove tomcat*' remove all of the openoffice > packages?This is a known issue in that using yum to remove packages is to use a blunt tool -- use rpm for finer control on package removals This question ocurs often in the yum and fedora mailing lists -- see them for details -- Russ Herrold