F11p Wine?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun May 24 23:45:21 UTC 2009


On 05/25/2009 05:11 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Take a look at the yum-plugin-remove-with-leaves. It does what you want.
> 
> Well, it tries to. More often than not, it does the wrong thing (e.g. where
> applications require other applications.) You can't even come close to
> reliably solving this problem without tracking which packages were
> installed explicitly and which were automatically installed as
> dependencies, and remove-with-leaves doesn't even try to do that. And even
> if you do that, you can end up removing stuff which wasn't supposed to be
> removed.

yum recently got the ability to track why a package was installed (via
dependencies or directly etc) and I guess the plugin would be taking
advantage of that

http://lists.baseurl.org/pipermail/yum/2009-May/022725.html

Rahul




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