[Yum] Stupid User Stories (was:Yum munging systems)

[Troy Dawson]

Just a fun story.
This isn't yum's fault, just a "I can't believe he just did that"
One of my users came to me telling me of what he had just done.
He said he was trying to trim down his system, so was getting rid of 
various packages he didn't think he needed.  Well ... you know there are 
really a couple of rpm's that EVERYTHING depends on.  He found it, and 
thought it wasn't important. (I'm currently trying to track it down, I 
think it was initscripts, but don't remember, but for this story we'll 
say it is.)
So he does a "yum remove initscripts", and the resulting list of rpm's 
that it wan't to remove scrolls off the screen.  He doesn't see anything 
really important on the part that is on the screen, so he hit's "y" and 
let's it go.
Well ... it's his testimony that yum happily will remove itself, as well 
as python.  But the system finally barfed after all the rpm packages had 
been removed and it was still trying to work with the rpm database.
Needless to say, a fresh install soon followed.
Troy
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Troy Dawson  dawson at fnal.gov  (630)840-6468
Fermilab  ComputingDivision/CSS  CSI Group
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