On 2/20/19 3:47 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
now, i haven't used yum for quite some time, i stick with dnf,
and
it seems that:
1) yum is required only by yum-utils
2) yum-utils is required by nothing on my current system
so it *seems* that i have no apparent for either yum or yum-utils. is
this a safe assumption?
Yes. Did you try adding the --allowerasing?