On 26-May-2014 5:44 pm, "Patrick O'Callaghan" <pocallag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 17:21 +0530, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > > I like the idea of "remove" which removes just the package and "erase" > > which erases everything automatically-created-and-hidden-by-system. > > From time to time software start misbehaving or an update that brings > > huge changes and it won't work properly because software has been > > updated but don't know how to handle conflicting system files. In that > > case a simple switch to removing things completely is helpful. > > If it can't handle old config files, it can't reliably remove them > either. > > > Yum man page has nothing on what erase does. > > Yum makes no distinction between erase and remove. > > > I don't run a multi-user setup so that is something beyond my concern. > > Unless you run everything as root, you have a multi-user system. > > poc > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Then why do we have two options, erase and remove, if they are same? -Sudhir.
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