>> > users may not want those features. A soft dependency covers this >> > situation pretty perfectly; by default you get the extra dependencies >> > installed so the features will be available, but if you're someone who >> > needs to optimize disk space or number of installed packages you'll have >> > configured urpmi not to install soft dependencies so you won't get them, >> > and if you didn't do that but you later decide to remove one of the soft >> > deps, you can. I consider this a significant win, the package would be >> > objectively less good without this. >> >> How do you know _later_ which installed packages could be removed as >> they only came via soft dependencies ? >> >> « package-cleanup --soft-leaves » or something like that ? > > Is this possible now even with hard dependencies? If I install package A > that requires B and C, but decide I don't like it so I remove package A, > B and C still stay on my system. Then you use « package-cleanup --leaves ». This will list the packages that were dragged in as dependencies but on which nothing depend anymore. ---------- Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
