yum 'shortcomings'?

[Rex Dieter]

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?

by default yum doesn't only precisely what you ask it to do.

You may want to try out yum-plugin-remove-with-leaves

-- Rex