Re: yum clutters system by not removing the auxillary packages it had installed

Rahul writes:
Keep incrementing a counter and that way yum knows when a certain
package B ended up being redundant. This way it will only issue the
dependant removes if it is sure nothing else that yum installed needed
that package.

It also has to make note of whether the package was originally installed
as a dependency or at the request of the admin (the Debian
package-management system already does all this, of course).
--
John Hasler
jhasler@xxxxxxxxxxx
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA
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