how to determain those no longer required packages
Ray Chen
chenrano2002 at 163.com
Sat Aug 29 09:54:59 UTC 2009
I'm reading APT and YUM source codes recently, and met the following
question:
for class apt.package.Package, there are a function "isAutoRemovable",
which means:
http://apt.alioth.debian.org/python-apt-doc/apt/package.html?highlight=isautoremovable#apt.package.Package.isAutoRemovable
Return True if the package is no longer required.
If the package has been installed automatically as a dependency
of another package, and if no packages depend on it anymore, the
package is no longer required.
Do YUM codes have the same function as 'isAutoRemovable' feature?? or
how to determine such no longer required rpm packages using yum CLIs?
Thanks,
Ray
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