Yum - Removal of dependant packages.

[ded]

Hi Paul,
And thanks for your answer.

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 10:53:24AM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> ded wrote:
[ ]
> >Does Yum not remove dependant packages or did I need to do more than
> >Yum remove <package>?

> You need to remove the dependent packages yourself. The rpm database
> does not contain any information on which packages are installed as
> dependencies, so there is no way for yum to know what to remove.

Oh. That's a bit of a disappointment then,

> There has been a thread on this on fedora-devel-list this week:
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2006-April/msg01121.html

Oops! I missed that when I checked the archives. Sorry for the extra
list noise.

Apparently, gathering from one of Jeff Spaletas' post on the thread
listed above, there doesn't appear to be much chance that Yums
behaviour is going to change soon.

Kind Regards,
D
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