On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 01:32 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > 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. See https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2006-June/008827.html for an explanation why this isn't as feasible as it looks like. Yes, apt-rpm and synaptic support such an operation but it's very unsafe operation to use and can result in a big smoking mess of a system if used without great care. - Panu -
