Re: Removing package and its dependencies

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:24:11PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> Is there some way to remove a certain package and its dependencies?
> Yum seems to be able to remove only the specified package.

If you attempt to remove a package which has dependencies, yum will
automatically flag all of its dependencies to be removed. Do you mean the
opposite -- if you remove a package, you want to also remove any packages
which were _only_ required by the package you've given?

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