On 8/1/06, Rahul <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks, Waqas. Ideally, yum should not act as you describe, as not > always the same package is necessary for two other different packages. > I was trying to remove mediawiki and all the packages that were > installed when mediawiki was installed. Meanwhile, I found that > synaptic has got the "complete removal" feature that seems to > correspond to what I was looking for. Thus, I ask: if synaptic is apt > to perform a complete removal (the package itself and the other > packages required by it), why is not yum also able to do so? A similar feature is provided in yum-utils # yum install yum-utils # package-cleanup --leaves. Take a look at the other options and commands too. This isnt exposed in any graphical program that uses yum that I know of though.
Thanks, Rahul. # package-cleanup --leaves only gives a list of packages, and, therefore, it seems that I have to use 'yum remove' to remove them. Is there some way of automatically feeding that list into the 'yum remove' command? Paul
