Bug 481465

Summary:	RFE: add an option --exclude-bin to yum-remove-with-leaves
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Muayyad Alsadi <alsadi>
Component:	yum-utils	Assignee:	Seth Vidal <skvidal>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Muayyad Alsadi 2009-01-25 08:38:28 UTC

Description of problem:
it was reported to us[1] that yum-remove-with-leaves removed many bin packages
thinking that they are no longer needed
this includes firefox and pidgin
http://www.linuxac.org/forum/showthread.php?p=174727

talking from my personal experience
yes this could happen
for example I installed a game then remove it and yum removed glx-utils
...
Jan 20 01:49:42 Erased: ant-jmf
Jan 20 16:44:17 Installed: nexuiz-data-2.4.2-1.fc10.noarch
Jan 20 16:44:19 Installed: opengl-games-utils-0.1-5.fc9.noarch
Jan 20 16:44:29 Installed: nexuiz-2.4.2-3.fc10.i386
Jan 20 17:16:28 Erased: opengl-games-utils
Jan 20 17:16:28 Erased: glx-utils
Jan 20 17:16:30 Erased: nexuiz-data
Jan 20 17:16:30 Erased: nexuiz
...

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-utils-1.1.19-1.fc10.noarch

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install fedora and yum-remove with-leaves (glx-utils will be installed by default)
2. install nexuiz
3. remove nexuiz

Actual results:
glx-utils is removed

Expected results:
should not remove binary leaves by default

Comment 1 seth vidal 2009-02-02 15:49:06 UTC

I added an --leaves-exclude-bin option to the plugin in upstream yum-utils.

http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=yum-utils.git;a=commit;h=46bab38465ab334dd933b8fb2537d9db7fcdf722

Comment 2 Muayyad Alsadi 2009-02-02 16:01:39 UTC

thanks very much, but is there a wisdom for not making it a default (other than saving some time in the loop)

Comment 3 seth vidal 2009-02-02 16:19:54 UTC

You can set it as a default in the remove-with-leaves.conf file. setting exclude_bin=1 will do it.

I don't want it as the default b/c it seems like extra confusion.