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..obviously I'll not remove openldap by this operation.. but my question is: there is another way to remove a single package with yum without "consequences"?
yum is specifically designed to deal with dependencies.
rpm is used for individual packages.
BUT!!!
If yum is saying it is removing the other packages it is saying they are dependent upon the ones you are trying to remove (or others that are that should therefore also be removed). The rpm command on the other hand will complain about dependencies but may not show you dependencies those have (this is called dependency hell and is the main reason yum was created).
Putting it more simply: If you need all those other packages you probably need to keep the open-ldap ones.
I note you didn't actually list the yum command you tried to run. It may be you used unexpected syntax. If you put it here we can see if it looks right.
Not if developers intentionally made it dependency for bunch of services and daemons. You might fool yum, but your services will most likely fail starting/running.
I note you didn't actually list the yum command you tried to run. It may be you used unexpected syntax. If you put it here we can see if it looks right.
You've got the proper command syntax, but it won't execute (on my Fedora 14 install) because yum apparently depends on something that depends on openldap.
Bottom line: live with the 750K or so taken up by openldap
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