how to determain those no longer required packages

[Ray Chen]

rpmreaper is NOT installed by default, I want use yum API in scripts to
remove unnecessary packages. The key is that how to determine the
unnecessary packages. so that I can remove safely to save disk. 

Would you like show me more details?? What packages are unnecessary
packages?

Thanks,
Ray

在 2009-08-29六的 13:46 +0200，Milos Jakubicek写道：
> rpmreaper may be handy for that too...
> 
> Regards,
> Milos
> 
> Dne 29.8.2009 19:07, Ray Chen napsal(a):
> > Thanks, package-cleanup is what I want:)
> >
> > -Ray
> >
> > 在 2009-08-29六的 03:29 -0400，Michel Alexandre Salim写道：
> >> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 5:54 AM, Ray Chen<chenrano2002 at 163.com>  wrote:
> >>>
> >>>         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?
> >>>
> >> Try package-cleanup from yum-utils.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> --
> >> Michel
> >>
> >
> >
>