[Yum] alwaysprompt isn't helpful and assumeyes is dangerous

[Mikel Ward]

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Hi

I can't get yum to do what I want with these two options.

What I want is:
1) if I do an install and it only installs the packages I asked for, go
ahead and do it
2) if I do an erase and it only removes the packages I asked for, go
ahead and do it
3) prompt for anything else

3 is important, because installing one package might cause an upgrade of
an already installed package that I'm depending on, and installing the
new version of the dependency might break something.

1 and 2 are important because it's really annoying to get asked
questions for trivial operations.

I can get 1 only if I set alwaysprompt = 0.

I can get 1 and 2 but not 3 if I set assumeyes.

Can we make alwaysprompt also affect removal?  I can try to do the patch
if you're OK with the idea.

Thanks

Mike

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