Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (78 mails)

[Jan Kupec <jkupec@xxxxxxx>]

(initial message, several replies will be forwarded shortly)

Hi,

We've received several requests to provide a feature to automatically
remove unused packages resulting from removing a package (or more packages).

For example:
i want to install 'glest': glest needs glest-data so both get installed.
Then i get bored with glest and want to remove it, but currently using
'zypper remove glest' will remove only 'glest', glest-data stays
needlessly installed.

What i want to achieve is something like:
$ zypper remove --auto-remove-whathever glest
....
The following packages are going to be REMOVED:
  glest-data glest

(maybe with an additional section in the summary like this:
The following package is unused and will be removed:
  glest-data
)

It is perfectly reasonable to be able to do this, i just wanted to ask
if there already is support for this in the current solver, or it needs
to be implemented.

BTW: if this is not in current solver yet, i don't known whether this
should be implemented in the SAT solver or still in the current solver.

Cheers,

Jano

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