yum erase unused dependencies

[Frank Murphy]

On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:40:46 +0100
Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:32:59 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 
> > I recall last year a discussion of using yum to remove unwanted
> > packages, and tell it to remove only dependencies which were used
> > by no other package. I can't seem to find how that was done in my
> > notes, could someone give me a pointer to the method?
> 
> yum list yum\*
> yum info yum-plugin-remove-with-leaves
> 

you could add the following to /etc/yum.conf
"clean_requirements_on_remove=1"

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Frank
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