Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > On 5/2/07, seth vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Any of those things seem cool or silly? > > What would be cool, is the following behaviour: > > 1. I run "yum install foo" > 2. libbar, libbaz, and libquux are installed as deps > 3. I decide I don't like foo, and run "yum erase foo" > 4. Yum looks at "requires" and offers to remove all those that don't > have any other dependencies among installed packages. I.e. if no other > package requires libbar, libbaz, or libquux, I'm offered a choice to > remove them. > > This is probably going to be a pain in the ass to implement, and > probably will be better suited for a gui, but it'd be a neat feature, > as my installed base grows with time due to various orphaned deps.
I've been working on this as a plugin, as a matter of fact. Right now it sucks for most cases. If anyone is interested in playing with it in its broken state, I can put the git repo online this evening. Now, let's see if Seth has already implemented this one in yum shell :P -James
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