[Yum-devel] RFC: Option to remove packages after installation

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Sat Mar 4 15:40:49 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 20:14 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> One thing which becomes something of a problem after a while of using a
> system is the default behavior of not cleaning packages/headers by
> default after a transaction.  While this is useful behavior in some
> cases, it's generally not useful for lots of users who only have a
> single machine.  Therefore, it probably makes sense to have it as an
> option :-/
> 
> The attached (small) patch seems to work.  If it seems reasonable, I can
> commit it and also add information about it to the man page.  If not,
> then I'll probably write the simple plugin that does the same thing.

yah, go ahead. I don't think I like the idea of making the new default
yum.conf in the upstream tarball have this being 'false', if only b/c of
surprising people when they upgrade to it.

-sv





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