On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 13:54 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > Callum Lerwick wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 13:07 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > >> [badger@Clingman tmp]$ sudo ./remove-recurse.py yum > >> [...] > >> removing pygpgme-0.1-8.fc9.i386 b/c it is not required by anything else > >> removing python-iniparse-0.2.3-3.fc9.noarch b/c it is not required by > >> anything else > > > > Using yum to remove yum? Talk about grasping for straw men. > > > > Can we argue realistic scenarios, please? > > > Pardon, yum was just the first package I looked at since Seth was doing > the asking. I can certainly go through and find something else that > will cause the same sort of thing to happen but why bother? This is the > technical point: If you are using your system to develop or otherwise > work on unpackaged software (I hadn't thought about having small scripts > in ~/bin earlier, for instance) then you will be caught out by this. > Here's the same script as a more-proper yum-util script http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/yum-remove-with-leaves.py try it: yum-remove-with-leaves.py somepkg -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
