Re: Doesn't "rpm -e" erase in reverse dependency order?

[Jos Vos <jos xos nl>]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 06:56:02PM -0800, Christian Goetze wrote:

> It would seem that it doesn't.

No, it doesn't, just like it doesn't install them at install time.

This is the task of dependency resolvers, like yum or apt, that usually
have an option to do that.  Note that this operation can not be done
"safely": it can never know whether packages that depend on the removed
package were not installed for another reason.

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