Description of problem: "yum autoremove" is the single greatest invention since the discovery of fire. However, I did not know about it and I have never heard about it from anyone else. And I and my colleagues work with yum A LOT. I learned about it today from this blog post: http://blog.thefinalzone.net/2013/04/yum-autoremove.html The reason of my ignorance is that this command is not mentioned in "man yum". Please add it to the manpage. I always envied apt-get that it can automatically remove unneeded dependencies. And no wonder, if we don't advertise it, people can't find out that yum can do it too. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-3.4.3-54.fc18.noarch
The fix is available on Fedora 19 on version 3.4.3-101. It will be nice to port the change to Fedora 18.
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I am closing this bug report because version 3.4.3-101 and above has documented "yum autoremove" command. From man yum: autoremove With one or more arguments this command works like running the "remove" command with the clean_requirements_on_remove turned on. However you can also specify no arguments, at which point it tries to remove any packages that weren't installed explicitly by the user and which aren't required by anything (so called leaf packages). Because autoremove does a lot of work to make it as easy as pos‐ sible to use, there are also a few specific autoremove commands "autoremove-n", "autoremove-na" and "autoremove-nevra". These only work on package names, and do not process wildcards etc. Taken from man yum version 3.4.3-128 in Fedora 20. In the future, it would be nice if upstream let the reporter testing the fix.