Re: Removing package and its dependencies

["Paul Smith" <phhs80 gmail com>]

On 7/31/06, Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org> 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?

Yes, Matthew, that is exactly what I mean, to remove any packages
which were _only_ required by the package.

Paul