Great thing about lurking in lists, is that you learn stuff! I wanted to know how to remove every dreaded package that had been installed when an intern/idiot decided to install x on a remote server - now I know yum erase should do the trick!
Oh my. You do realize that a "yum erase" will gladly remove packages dependent on that package? On my system, "yum erase openssl" will remove 433 other packages.
Watch yourself, though - do a listing of what it *would* erase, and go through that first. There are some packages that I've recently noticed that arent' gui-based, but have them as dependencies, for some thoughtless and stupid reason.
mark