On 05/25/2009 05:11 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> Take a look at the yum-plugin-remove-with-leaves. It does what you want. > > Well, it tries to. More often than not, it does the wrong thing (e.g. where > applications require other applications.) You can't even come close to > reliably solving this problem without tracking which packages were > installed explicitly and which were automatically installed as > dependencies, and remove-with-leaves doesn't even try to do that. And even > if you do that, you can end up removing stuff which wasn't supposed to be > removed. yum recently got the ability to track why a package was installed (via dependencies or directly etc) and I guess the plugin would be taking advantage of that http://lists.baseurl.org/pipermail/yum/2009-May/022725.html Rahul -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
