Bug 105104

Summary: YaST package manager should be able to uninstall auto-installed packages
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Adam-Szabolcs Sebestyen <sebestyenszaby>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Andreas Jaeger <aj>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: unspecified   
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Hardware: All   
OS: SuSE Pro 9.3   
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Description Adam-Szabolcs Sebestyen 2005-08-17 07:01:43 UTC 
Here is an example:
Say i install package A and Yast selects packages B, C and D for install as
dependencies. When i want to remove say package B Yast tells me that package A
will not work without package B.

What i want is that when i remove package A Yast doesn't tells me anything about
packages B, C and D. I have to remove these packages myself by searching
through installed packages, and this is time consuming. Sometimes this kind of
packages can take a lot of free space on a harddisk.
This is the improvement what i wish to be done.
It would be nice if Yast tells me about packages
B, C and D, and ask me what i want to remove from those, in case when B, C and D
are not used by say an E package.
Comment 1 Arvin Schnell 2005-08-17 08:19:50 UTC 
That would require YaST to remember why a package was installed (explicit
selected, required by package X, Y).  Currenlty the system does not have
this information.

Feature request to be decided by project managment.
Comment 2 Andreas Jaeger 2005-08-17 11:11:17 UTC 
Good idea, I'll consider it for future products.
Comment 3 Andreas Jaeger 2005-12-21 10:58:02 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 140346 ***