How to remove a single KDE component, say Gwenview or KWrite or KDE Games.

Every time I use yum to uninstall a KDE component, it uninstalls entire KDE.

If you cannot remove individual KDE applications such as Gwenview from your KDE installation, then this is a severe defect with the KDE packaging for you distribution.

Some applications are however part of kde-runtime - and are required for the proper operation of a KDE installation.

Which application(s) are you trying to remove, and what does Yum output when you attempt to remove it?

actually I tried to remove kWrite (because it's a duplicate of kate)

after typing "sudo yum remove kwrite"
it says that the following packages will also be removed:

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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Removing:
kwrite x86_64 4.7.2-1.fc16 @anaconda-0 230 k
Removing for dependencies:
kdebase x86_64 6:4.7.2-3.fc16 @anaconda-0 9.3 M
kdebase-libs x86_64 6:4.7.2-3.fc16 @anaconda-0 984 k
kdenetwork x86_64 7:4.7.2-2.fc16 @anaconda-0 0.0
kdenetwork-kget x86_64 7:4.7.2-2.fc16 @anaconda-0 3.2 M
kdenetwork-kget-libs x86_64 7:4.7.2-2.fc16 @anaconda-0 780 k
kdesdk x86_64 4.7.2-2.fc16 @anaconda-0 14 k
kdesdk-dolphin-plugins x86_64 4.7.2-2.fc16 @anaconda-0 157 k
kdeutils x86_64 6:4.7.2-1.fc16 @anaconda-0 0.0
kdeutils-ark x86_64 6:4.7.2-1.fc16 @anaconda-0 767 k
kdeutils-ark-libs x86_64 6:4.7.2-1.fc16 @anaconda-0 206 k
kdeutils-minimal x86_64 6:4.7.2-1.fc16 @anaconda-0 0.0
krusader x86_64 2.4.0-0.1.beta1.fc16 @anaconda-0 9.2 M

Transaction Summary
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Remove 13 Packages



Is there any solution to remove kwrite ONLY rather than removing ENTIRE KDE?
Or is there any ways to just HIDE or DISABLE kwrite without removing it?

KWrite is part of Kate, which is not part of KDE Core in any form. Please file a report with your distribution, it appears that they do not want you to remove KWrite without removing the rest of KDE.

One reason I can think of this happening is that you have no other KDE applications installed - and Yum is cleaning up dependencies.

Thx.

I'm using Fedora 16 64-bit.
I installed Gnome Desktop and KDE desktop.

BTW, how to disable a KDE program (such as kwrite or gwenview or others) without removing it?
I meant a feature like "Turn Windows Features On or Off" on Windows.

It is because kde is a requirement of kwrite. You need to block dependencies from being erased too. The easiest way is with rpm not yum. Do
rpm -e --nodeps kwrite

A warning, it doesn't ask for permission it just does it. You can check it has happened with
yum info kwrite
It will show kwrite as an available package not an installed one.