functionality similar to apt-get autoclean?
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat Oct 20 16:23:46 UTC 2007
Rohan Sheth wrote:
> Debian has this nifty feature of apt-get which is the option to
> 'autoclean'
>
> It has two purposes, first it removes files from the local repository
> which can no longer be downloaded and are useless. Second it removes
> packages that used to depend on a package which no longer exists.
>
> Example:
>
> I install claws-mail which depends on (among other things) libetpan11.
>
> Then I decide I don't like claws-mail and remove the package claws-mail.
>
> The next time I run autoclean (presuming that no other installed
> package depends on libetpan11) it will remove the package libetpan11
> since it it no longer required by the system.
>
> Is there any similar functionality with yum/rpm?
Other than what Todd has already said, note that apt-rpm is available in
Fedora. If you need it
# yum install apt
Rahul
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