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From: wimpunk on 12 Mar 2010 04:43
On 2010-03-06, Taki <taki(a)nowhereman.borg> wrote:
> On 03/05/2010 04:14 AM, J G Miller wrote:
>> On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:15:34 +0100, Eef Hartman wrote:
>>
>>> The system doesn't know anymore which packages are only installed
>>> because of dependencies for other packages.
>>
>> But you can use rpm to ascertain which packages depend on a particular
>> package and so manually build a list of other packages which can be
>> removed when removing something which has dependencies.
>>
>
> You can try "rpmorphan" from the Packman repo.

Thank you all for the hints. I knew I could do it with rpm and a
little scripting but I was hoping to find a easier, already written
way.

Regards,

wimpunk.
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