Bug 206923

Summary:	Automatic removal of dependencies
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Rahul Sundaram <sundaram>
Component:	pirut	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
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Description Rahul Sundaram 2006-09-18 08:51:43 UTC

Description of problem:

If package X is removed, the dependencies installed for X is not always removed.

Expected results:

Apt-get has --purge and Synpatic apparently now exposes this better. We should
look at implementing something similar in Pirut. I know this was discused in
yum-devel lists before and was rejected as a core feature but this seems quite
useful neverthless. 

Additional info:

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/23036

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2006-09-18 17:07:46 UTC

The problem is there's no way to know if a package was explicitly selected for
installation or if it was just pulled in by deps.  

So doing something like this in an automated fashion is an _extremely_ bad idea.
 For people that want to micromanage things like this, there's the --leaves
option to package-cleanup in yum-utils