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