[Yum] delete dead dependencies

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Thu Oct 27 19:07:25 UTC 2005


On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Lanjelot wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I'd like to find a way to remove old dependencies that aren't
> required by any software installed on a system.
x
that's a really dangerous way to word that, since there are *numerous*
packages that aren't required by other packages.  for example:

  $ rpm -q --whatrequires usbview
  no package requires usbview

usbview is a perfectly useful program but, according to your
definition, it would be "redundant"??  i'm pretty sure that's not what
you're trying to do.

rday




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