On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, seth vidal wrote: > On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 02:25 -0300, Daniel Bolgheroni wrote: >> Hi, >> >> are there any way to do a recursive remove of a package and all >> packages it depends on? Something like the -R option found in pkgsrc. >> >> http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?pkg_delete++NetBSD-current >> > > yum remove name-of-package > > > yum will find all of its dependencies and confirm if you wish to remove > them. That'll remove the package and anything depending on it, not packages it depends on which is what Daniel asked for :) Eg you install package A, which pulls in new packages B, C and D because of C. On 'yum remove A' packages B, C and D will remain on the system. With something like -R above, B C and D would get removed as well (assuming nothing else depending on them has been installed in the meanwhile). It doesn't look like a hard problem at first sight, but it is. Suppose B depended on something that you already had installed on your system but nothing else required it: it would also get removed which probably isn't what you wanted. To have a prayer of a chance to get it right, one would have to track how something got installed (direct user request or dependency on a given package) and use that information on removal. And even with that you'll have all sorts of nasty cases which are impossible to get 100% right in some circumstances. - Panu -
