Removing a package should erase half the system install??

[Jim]

Ric Moore wrote:
> I was about to remove totem libparser package when I noted that it would
> remove gnome games and a bunch of other packages that I would think
> would have nothing or little to do with totem to the extreme of removing
> them all. I removed an older version of liblua and it erased my entire
> KDE install. What's up with all of those depends and why is removing one
> package heck bent of erasing half the total install?? Is there a way to
> circumvent that? Ric
>
>
>   

do a :

rpm -e --nodeps totem libparser     AND THAT WILL BE THE ONLY PACKAGE IT 
WILL REMOVE.