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.