yumを強制的に削除してrpmを削除する方法

openssl-libsを削除し、diff opensslバージョンをインストールしたいと思います。

ただし、yumの削除オプションは依存関係リストが大きすぎて次のように失敗します。

yum remove openssl-libs
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---> Package spax.x86_64 0:1.5.2-13.el7 will be erased
---> Package speex.x86_64 0:1.2-0.19.rc1.el7 will be erased
---> Package startup-notification.x86_64 0:0.12-8.el7 will be erased
---> Package taglib.x86_64 0:1.8-7.20130218git.el7 will be erased
---> Package tcp_wrappers.x86_64 0:7.6-77.el7 will be erased
---> Package tcp_wrappers-libs.x86_64 0:7.6-77.el7 will be erased
---> Package telepathy-filesystem.noarch 0:0.0.2-6.el7 will be erased
---> Package telepathy-glib.x86_64 0:0.24.0-1.el7 will be erased
---> Package telepathy-logger.x86_64 0:0.8.0-5.el7 will be erased
---> Package tigervnc-license.noarch 0:1.3.1-3.el7 will be erased
---> Package ttmkfdir.x86_64 0:3.0.9-42.el7 will be erased
---> Package tzdata-java.noarch 0:2015g-1.el7 will be erased
---> Package urw-fonts.noarch 0:2.4-16.el7 will be erased
---> Package usbredir.x86_64 0:0.6-7.el7 will be erased
---> Package vte-profile.x86_64 0:0.38.3-2.el7 will be erased
---> Package wavpack.x86_64 0:4.60.1-9.el7 will be erased
---> Package webrtc-audio-processing.x86_64 0:0.1-5.el7 will be erased
---> Package xcb-util.x86_64 0:0.4.0-2.el7 will be erased
---> Package xkeyboard-config.noarch 0:2.14-1.el7 will be erased
---> Package xml-common.noarch 0:0.6.3-39.el7 will be erased
---> Package xmlrpc-c.x86_64 0:1.32.5-1905.svn2451.el7 will be erased
---> Package xorg-x11-font-utils.x86_64 1:7.5-20.el7 will be erased
---> Package xorg-x11-fonts-Type1.noarch 0:7.5-9.el7 will be erased
---> Package xorg-x11-server-common.x86_64 0:1.17.2-10.el7 will be erased
---> Package xorg-x11-server-utils.x86_64 0:7.7-14.el7 will be erased
---> Package xorg-x11-xkb-utils.x86_64 0:7.7-12.el7 will be erased
---> Package yajl.x86_64 0:2.0.4-4.el7 will be erased
---> Package yelp-xsl.noarch 0:3.14.0-1.el7 will be erased
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Trying to remove "systemd", which is protected
Error: Trying to remove "yum", which is protected

最後の数行でsystemdとyumが削除されたことがわかります。

Error: Trying to remove "systemd", which is protected
Error: Trying to remove "yum", which is protected

openssl-libs rpmを削除するためにyumの削除を強制するにはどうすればよいですか？

ダウングレードも試しました

    yum downgrade openssl-libs  --skip-broken
    Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager
configuration
    Resolving Dependencies
    --> Running transaction check
    ---> Package openssl-libs.x86_64 1:1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1 will be a downgrade
    ---> Package openssl-libs.x86_64 1:1.0.2k-19.el7 will be erased

    Packages skipped because of dependency problems:
        1:openssl-libs-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.x86_64 from rhel-7-server-rpms
    Error: Success - empty transaction