Removing package and its dependencies

[Paul Smith]

On 8/1/06, Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> 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.

Paul