Yum remove Fails w/ Error "The operation would result in removing the following protected packages"

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Applies To:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later

Oracle Linux x86-64

Symptoms

Trying to replace the fips enabled gnutls-3.6.16-8.el8_9.3_fips.x86_64 package with normal gnutls-3.6.16-8.el8_9.3.x86_64 and while doing so it fails with error:

# yum remove gnutls-3.6.16-8.el8_9.3_fips.x86_64                                                                          
Error:
Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: systemd
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)