On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 14:01 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > On 8/1/06, Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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? > > > > > did you try man on package-cleanup? > > > > It tells me: > > DESCRIPTION > > package-cleanup is a program for cleaning up the > > locally-installed RPMs. > > Sure, I did, but > > package-cleanup --leaves mediawiki > > did not remove mediawiki. > if you want that list fed to 'yum remove' this would work yum remove `package-cleanup --leaves mediawiki` I had to look at the output and test it to be sure. However, look carefully at the list it proposes. When I tried it I did not get _only_ the packages that were required for my test package, but also got a full list of all the leaves in the package tree -- including yum and a lot of libraries. It seems the output of the --leaves option is not limited to the branch with the package you specify. Needless to say I did not do the uninstall. > Paul >
