[Yum-devel] post 3.2.0 things to think about

[James Bowes]

Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On 5/2/07, seth vidal <skvidal at linux.duke.edu> wrote:
>> Any of those things seem cool or silly?
> 
> What would be cool, is the following behaviour:
> 
> 1. I run "yum install foo"
> 2. libbar, libbaz, and libquux are installed as deps
> 3. I decide I don't like foo, and run "yum erase foo"
> 4. Yum looks at "requires" and offers to remove all those that don't
> have any other dependencies among installed packages. I.e. if no other
> package requires libbar, libbaz, or libquux, I'm offered a choice to
> remove them.
> 
> This is probably going to be a pain in the ass to implement, and
> probably will be better suited for a gui, but it'd be a neat feature,
> as my installed base grows with time due to various orphaned deps.

I've been working on this as a plugin, as a matter of fact. Right now it
sucks for most cases. If anyone is interested in playing with it in its
broken state, I can put the git repo online this evening.

Now, let's see if Seth has already implemented this one in yum shell :P

-James

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