Removing package and its dependencies

[Rahul]

Paul Smith wrote:
> On 8/1/06, Waqas Toor <waqasnasirtoor at gmail.com> wrote:
>> yum automatically checks for the dependencies .... so may the 
>> dependencies
>> of your package are the dependencies of some other package thats why its
>> acting like that,
>> can you be more precise to tell what package you are removing
> 
> 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.

Rahul