Dependency loops considered harmful?

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 13:54 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Callum Lerwick wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 13:07 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> >> [badger at Clingman tmp]$ sudo ./remove-recurse.py yum
> >> [...]
> >> removing pygpgme-0.1-8.fc9.i386 b/c it is not required by anything else
> >> removing python-iniparse-0.2.3-3.fc9.noarch b/c it is not required by
> >> anything else
> > 
> > Using yum to remove yum? Talk about grasping for straw men.
> > 
> > Can we argue realistic scenarios, please?
> > 
> Pardon, yum was just the first package I looked at since Seth was doing
> the asking.  I can certainly go through and find something else that
> will cause the same sort of thing to happen but why bother?  This is the
> technical point:  If you are using your system to develop or otherwise
> work on unpackaged software (I hadn't thought about having small scripts
> in ~/bin earlier, for instance) then you will be caught out by this.
> 

Here's the same script as a more-proper yum-util script

http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/yum-remove-with-leaves.py

try it:
yum-remove-with-leaves.py somepkg
-sv