http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547913 Summary: Please add support for autoremove obsolete packages. (wishlist) Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: RC 1 Platform: i686 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.2 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: libzypp AssignedTo: zypp-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: EagleScreen@gmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux; es-ES) AppleWebKit/527+ (KHTML, like Gecko, Safari/419.3) Arora/0.10.1 Rquesting a new feature in zypper/libzypp: autoremove of obsolete packages. Zypper installs package "A", which depends on packages "B" and "C". Zypper remove package "A". Packages "B" and "C" are no longer necessary, but they keep installed. Packages could have a flag indicating if they ware automatically installed by other or not. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Zypper installs package "A", which depends on packages "B" and "C". 2. Zypper remove package "A". 3. Packages "B" and "C" are no longer necessary, but they keep installed. Actual Results: Packages "B" and "C" are no longer necessary, but they keep installed. Expected Results: Zypper should autoremove packages "B" and "C" with package "A" because they result obsolete. Some other package management tools from other GNU/Linux distributions already have this implemented, as like as apt-get in Debian. And it is very good to keep a clean system enviroment along the time. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.