On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 11:38:35PM -0700, Panu Matilainen wrote: > 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. You would need to save the group and package selection and always make sure the system is kept to that selection to get this working. That is not how current systems are managed. They are usually just updated after the initial install. Using a kickstart package selection as the target and then writing from that "yum remove/install" commands should be doable though. regards, Florian La Roche
