Hi everybody I am running openSUSE 10.3 with KDE desktop. I installed the "pidgin" pkg with YaST which in turn installed a couple of more pkgs to resolve dependencies. My question is if I ever decide to uninstall "pidgin" how can I trace those pkgs which were installed to resolve dependencies & uninstall them?? either using YaST or from CLI. My second question is about rpm & deb packages & thus might be very contentions so a little bit of history first as I don't intend to start a flame war here....... this is how I started using linux & then moved on to different distros RH-7.3 -> RH-8 -> Slackware-9.1 -> Slackware-10 -> Slackware-10.1 -> Slackware-10.2 -> Slackware-11 -> NovelSuse-10.1 -> openSUSE-10.2 -> openSUSE-10.3 as you have probably noticed I have no exposure to Debian or any of it's derivative distros, but recently I have been listening to a lot of noise regarding .deb pkgs from different people, so I even gave Ubuntu-7.04 a shot when it was released... but I had other problems.. 1)having shifted from M$-windows I have alway found KDE more appealing, thus kind of dependent on it, so I didn't exactly try Ubuntu; rather Kubuntu-7.04(DVD). 2) but I use applications which are sometimes very heavily dependent on GNOME (pidgin, ekiga to name a few..). Sure many people suggested just do "sudo apt-get foo" & everything will be fine, but I live in Bangladesh & don't have broadband (internet is not a way of life here, yet) and can't taken advantages of the facilities that modern package managers offer may it be apt synaptic or YaST. So by now you guys know why I had to ditch Kubuntu & stick to a distro which by default had good support for both KDE & GNOME.... coming back to pkg management... I hear from a friend that when you uninstall a .deb pkg in Debian (or any of it's derivative distros) the pkg manager also uninstalls the pkgs those were installed to resolve dependencies... sound pretty neat... is it true?? if so is it possible to achieve this on rpm based distros?? Hope I did not offend/hurt any body's feelings Emon