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Feature added by: Jacques Boulet (oneinch)

Feature #306627, revision 1
Title: depencency tracking for uninstalling 
  
openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed
Priority 
    Requester: Important 
 
Requested by: Jacques Boulet (oneinch) 
 
Description: 
The openSuSE package management is virtually unbeatable in the dependency 
tracking for installing department. But when it comes to uninstalling it really 
leaves little to be desired. It would be great if YAST and zypper kept track of 
the dependencies that were installed for a specific package during its install 
and checked the dependencies during the uninstall to see if they are in use by 
something else or not. And if not then give the ability to remove the unused 
dependencies.

For example I install package "Foo" the requires library "Bar." Library "Bar" 
is not installed so it gets installed when I install "Foo." Later I realize the 
package "Foo" wasn't exactly what I needed and wish to remove it. But 
uninstalling just removes the package "Foo" and leaves the library "Bar" 
sitting around unused and taking up space. So if I want to remove the library 
"Bar" i must do so manually. It would be great if I wish to uninstall "Foo" 
that the package manager would have the ability to check any dependencies that 
were needed and installed for package "Foo" and see if they are still needed by 
another package or lib and if so, keep it, and if not remove it.

Also, it would be awesome if one could remove an entire package group such as 
uninstalling gnome or KDE.

  
 
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openSUSE Feature: 
https://features.opensuse.org/306627