RPM Soft dependencies (Was: Re: Agenda for the 2009-05-26 Packaging Committee meeting)

[Kevin Kofler]

Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) wrote:
> Actually, there are two:
> - package-cleanup that I mentioned
> - yum-plugin-remove-with-leaves that Seth mentioned which is even easier

But both are completely broken by design because they don't understand the
difference between something being dragged in as a dependency or being
explicitly installed. Applications can require other applications,
remove-with-leaves will happily remove those even if you actually want
them! package-cleanup --leaves even finds almost all applications, so it's
entirely useless.

        Kevin Kofler