Issue #13462 has been updated by Simon Guest.
This feature of yum is available as a plugin. On CentOS 6 it's in the package yum-plugin-remove-with-leaves. This is not available on my CentOS 5 machine. If the package is installed, the file /usr/lib/yum-plugins/remove-with-leaves.py will exist. Maybe the feature could be enabled if this file exists? (I don't know a better way of checking whether a yum plugin is available; the yum API is pretty poorly documented - at least, that's my excuse.) I am unlikely to submit a patch for this, because I am stuck on the version of Puppet in CentOS 6 (actually in EPEL 6), which is currently 2.6.14, so I can't benefit immediately from new releases. Sorry. cheers, Simon ---------------------------------------- Feature #13462: yum provider should use --remove-with-leaves https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13462#change-61212 Author: Simon Guest Status: Needs More Information Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: Red Hat Target version: Affected Puppet version: Keywords: Branch: By default, yum remove does not removed installed dependencies. This is really annoying, and clutters up the system with unwanted dependencies. The yum plugin remove-with-leaves adds an additional option to yum remove, namely --remove-with-leaves. I suggest puppet use this, instead of using rpm to remove packages, so that automatically installed dependencies get removed. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
