Comments on: Fedora – removing unwanted deps?

By: Testing yum’s autoremove orphaned deps feature « the blog of Chris

Testing yum’s autoremove orphaned deps feature « the blog of Chris — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 01:54:23 +0000

[...] where last time I tried to remove gnash-plugin (after testing it out, I didn’t want it) yum wanted to remove Firefox!! [...]

By: Yum gets autoremove dependency feature « the blog of Chris

Yum gets autoremove dependency feature « the blog of Chris — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 03:09:10 +0000

[...] Yes, there is the remove-leaves plugin for Yum and various RPM orphan checking tools, but in my experience, they are just not reliable. [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:16:29 +0000

Hey Rahul,

I am running that version of Yum, so I’ll investigate further.
Thanks.

Jeremy, that would just be cheating now, wouldn’t it

-c

By: Rahul Sundaram

Rahul Sundaram — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:58:29 +0000

Chris,

Yum didn’t store the details on whether a package is installed directly or via a dependency among other things until recently. The link I posted explains the implementation details. Like I said, the plugin has to be modified to use the yumdb to really do what you want. If you want more details, post to yum-devel list or go up to #yum channel in freenode. You aren’t going to get too many details as response to blog posts.

Jeremy,

Very funny but apt-rpm and smart is in the repo as well. So there

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:25:54 +0000

Easy –

sudo apt-get autoremove gnash-plugin

Oh, wait.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:53:50 +0000

Hey Rahul,

Thanks for the reply. Those two commands still don’t really do what I want.

Continuing my example above, if I remove gnash-plugin, neither of those two commands tell me to remove gnash or any of the other dependencies which were pulled in by the install.

It seems simple to me. If you install something which pulls in dependencies and then remove it, those dependencies should also disappear (unless some other package you have installed after it wants them to).

Am I missing something here?

-c

By: Rahul Sundaram

Rahul Sundaram — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:41:26 +0000

I assume you are trying to use the leaves plugin which doesn’t work very well currently as you have observed. Yum recently has got a feature that supports additional metadata. The plugin needs to be modified to use this yumdb and then it would work more accurately.

http://lists.baseurl.org/pipermail/yum-devel/2009-May/005629.html

Till then, package-cleanup –leaves and rpmorphan can come in handy.