yum 'shortcomings'?

[Aaron Konstam]

On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 12:41 +0200, Alexander Volovics wrote: 
> Hello
> 
> 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?
I use meld all the time as a substitute fro diff. It is noway only
useful in conjunction with gnome commander. 
> 
> These packages were exclusively associated with gnome-commander.
> No other app needs them!
> 
> I know yum builds on rpm and rpm itself is not so versatile with
> respect to removal but shouldn't yum(rpm) include some more stringent
> 'removal-options' (including removing the gnome-commander created
> directory ".gnome-commander" in the home folder).
> 
> apt/synaptic seems to include a 'complete removal' option.
> 
> Alexander
> 


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