On 8/3/06, Michael Stenner <mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This is just to suggest an enhancement: yum should be able to > > automatically (and by option of the user) > > These seem contradictory. You mean like "yum removedeps foobar"? Yes, that is what I mean. > > remove a package and *also* the packages required* by it. That > > feature would greatly help us to keep clean our Linux installation. > > I doubt it. I'm betting it would make a big smoking mess of your > installation. How do you know WHICH deps to remove? Surely you don't > want to remove them all because removing anything would take glibc > with it. Anything that has no OTHER requiring packages? What about > user apps that happen to be required by other things as well (wget, > for example). > > There's just no way to do this cleanly. I'm betting any > implementation would be wrong (in the sense of doing what the user > wanted) more often than it was right. Thanks, Michael. I am not an expert and I am not able to discuss about the pros and cons. I only wanted to contribute with an idea to improve yum for its users. However, I see that synaptic has the feature of 'complete removal', which is able of removing some dependencies together with the package itself. Paul
