Coming from a Gentoo/Debian background, one thing that has constantly bugged me on RPM based platforms like Fedora is the lack of decent, reliable dependency removal.
It seems so simple (and Debian has done it since the dawn of time) – if I install package x which pulls in dependencies y and z, then when I remove package x, I want to remove dependencies y and z, if they are not required by any other package.
Yes, there is the remove-leaves plugin for Yum and various RPM orphan checking tools, but in my experience, they are just not reliable.
So, I’m very happy to have discovered that Seth Vidal has merged orphaned dependency cleanup on removal into Yum. Hallelujah!
It’s in rawhide yum-3.2.28-13, and I’ll do some testing soon…
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Something I was looking for! Thanks!
Glad it could help 🙂