Am 02.06.2013 16:11, schrieb Ranjan Maitra: > On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 13:12:36 +0100 Ian Malone <ibmal...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 2 June 2013 11:20, Tim <ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au> wrote: >>> Allegedly, on or about 01 June 2013, Anthony sent: >>>> You *could*, I believe, uninstall GNOME and reinstall it. >> >> (Incidentally there is a "yum reinstall" which is preferable to a >> separate uninstall and install if you do need to do this, though I >> don't think it works for package groups - need to know what the actual >> problem is.) > > As a slight aside, one thing about "yum reinstall" that I find strange > is that it does not reinstall the dependencies (unless there needs to be > some other flag to make that happen). > > when we do have dependencies (libRmath-devel) also installed. In my > view both should be reinstalled
why and *which* dependencies? * the direct one * the implicit * both * the whole OS * cross dependencies there are very few good reasons for reinstall a RPM hence if you cluttered your whole installation "yum reinstall \*" in this topic reinstall makes zero sense at all RPM packages never touch files inside your userhome like settings
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