Removing package and its dependencies
Paul Smith
phhs80 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 31 21:33:56 UTC 2006
On 7/31/06, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
> > Is there some way to remove a certain package and its dependencies?
> > Yum seems to be able to remove only the specified package.
>
> If you attempt to remove a package which has dependencies, yum will
> automatically flag all of its dependencies to be removed. Do you mean the
> opposite -- if you remove a package, you want to also remove any packages
> which were _only_ required by the package you've given?
Yes, Matthew, that is exactly what I mean, to remove any packages
which were _only_ required by the package.
Paul
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