On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 20:39 -0700, Michael Stenner wrote: > On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:25:20PM -0300, Daniel Bolgheroni wrote: > > I'm trying to remove some packages in a different way. By default, yum > > removes all packages that depends on the one being removed. > > > > The portable NetBSD package system (runs on GNU/Linux too) has useful > > options regarding this, like -r and -R in pkg_delete. The parameter -r > > is what yum does, by default. > > > > I would like to remove the given package and any packages it depends on, > > unless some other package still needs a dependent package. > > > > Are there any way to do this with yum? > > No. This is an interesting concept. There is an obvious case when > this is undesirable. Lets say foo depends on bar. If the user never > uses bar directly, and nothing else depends on bar, then it's great to > remove it when you remove foo. For example, it might be nice to have > xmms-mp3 go away when I remove xmms. However, what if the user DOES > use bar directly. This can't show up as a dep, of course. For > example, k3b depends on cdrecord. > > Don't get me wrong. I'm not criticizing the option. I'm just curious > how often the scenario I describe is an issue. No problem. But what about removing packages this way if I know exactly what I am doing? I think this option wouldn't be an issue. I agree the way yum removes package is safer than the way I described earlier, but if anything goes "wrong", all you get is that a package that you use directly will be removed (of course, if it isn't a dependency for other package). Nothing will be broken.
