On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 07:25:45 -0500,
Bob Gustafson <bobgus@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Similar situations occur when dealing with libraries: generally these get
installed since packages containing applications depend on them. When the
application-package is purged, the library-package might stay on the system. Or:
when the application-package no longer depends upon e.g. libdb4.2, but upon
libdb4.3, the libdb4.2 package might stay when the application-package is upgraded.
And unless you are short on space that isn't particularly a problem.
There are tools that help find leaf packages if you want to do some pruning.
I am pretty sure that there is even something that will notice that a
package getting removed will make something a leaf and remove that too.
I don't use it, since I typically like kitchen sink installations, so I
don't have exact details for you. It shouldn't be too hard to find though.
package-cleanup --leaves
and
package-cleanup --leaves --all
and the plugin yum-remove-with-leaves.
-sv
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