Seth Vidal wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 13:07 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >> Seth Vidal wrote: >>> Okay this is obviously just Proof code so take it as read - but grab >>> this script: >>> >>> http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/remove-recurse.py >>> >>> and run it with one arg being the pkg you wish to remove. It will print >>> out what it would end up doing if it was removed. >>> >>> for example: >>> >>> # python remove-recurse.py easytag >>> remove easytag >>> removing id3lib-3.8.3-20.fc9.i386 b/c it is not required by anything >>> else >>> removing libmp4v2-1.5.0.1-6.fc9.i386 b/c it is not required by anything >>> else >>> libmp4v2.i386 0-1.5.0.1-6.fc9 - e >>> id3lib.i386 0-3.8.3-20.fc9 - e >>> easytag.i386 0-2.1-5.fc9 - e >>> >>> >>> >>> It doesn't actually change anything, just prints out what would happen. >>> then tell me which (and I'm sure there are many) cases it doesn't >>> properly address. >>> -sv >>> >>> >> [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 >> >> As it turns out, I personally need both of these deps. I have a script >> in ~/bin/ that uses pygpgme. I also am working on fas in a local >> checkout which requires pygpgme. And I'm evaluating python-iniparse and >> python-configobj to see which one I'm going to be using for some fedora >> infrastructure scripts. >> >> So -- I like having a script that can remove things recursively. Even >> better if I could do: >> sudo remove-recurse.py yum --exclude pygpgme >> >> I just wouldn't want this kind of thing to be automatic or to be the >> default when I do "yum remove" >> > > I mostly agree. I sorta think that _maybe_ your case is becoming more of > the edge case and a lot more folks want to remove all the things that > just got dragged in when they ran: yum install this_really_cool_thing > > So, if there were an option to let you disable leaf removal would that > work out? > Depends. I'd much rather have:: yum remove (-r|-R|--recursive) this_really_cool_thing than:: yum remove --no-recursive this_really_cool_thing But maybe that's just the positive me. If it goes in /etc/yum.conf then either one could be the default. A setting in a config file can be scripted in a kickstart, deployed by puppet, or set by an individual user once and then forgotten. -Toshio
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