yum 'shortcomings'?

[Alexander Volovics]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 06:48:51AM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
 
> > I recently installed gnome-commander.
> > Because gnome-commander needs 'meld', 'exiv2-libs', 'gnome-vfs2-smb'
> > these were also installed.
> > Today I removed gnome-commander with 'yum remove' but yum did not
> > include (or even suggest) meld, exiv2libs and gnome-vfs2-smb for
> > removal. Why?
 
> by default yum doesn't only precisely what you ask it to do.
 
> You may want to try out yum-plugin-remove-with-leaves

Thanks for the suggestion. From the packge desciption is seems to do
something like what I described above.

It would have been helpfull if the package also included a description
on how to actually use it.

So on to a yum-plugins site or trial and error.

Alexander