Is it possible to remove unneeded dependencies? eg. In ubuntu you can “apt-get autoremove”
I have noticed in verbose mode while booting up suse removes orphan packages so I am not sure and someone should correct but r those dependencies it removes itself?
Are you saying that unneeded dependencies are removed at boot?
kind of, at least thats what orphaned packages mean to me 
sweet. Thank you.
That does not work after all. This is one of 2 things I miss about Ubuntu. I really loved apt-get autoremove.
It doesn’t happen on every reboot, I have noticed that as well but it does occur and besides there r other tools as well to remove dependencies as well.
Ubuntu is based on Debian so they have the benefit of their package management.
Other tools? Like what?
Here u r and sorry for the late reply:
Thank you. It lists:
libdvdcss
libgio-fam
libgpod-tools
libvisual-plugins
Are these safe to remove?
How exactly do I use it? i just put rpmorphan in at the commandline. Should I use rpm --all?
libdvdcss is for encrypted dvd’s
the other 3 r important as well.
I told u suse removes dependencies on its own, this program is asking u to remove stuff it needs, it isn’t reliable, haven’t u noticed that its only listed 4 things and all 4 r important.
dependencies r removed on boot every once in a while as far as I know, these 3rd party programs r pretty useless, I only gave them to u cause u were asking.
Its really ridiculous with --all option.
3ddiag
915resolution
AdobeICCProfiles
ConsoleKit-x11
MPlayer
MozillaFirefox
NetworkManager-kde
OpenOffice_org-Quickstarter
OpenOffice_org-base
OpenOffice_org-filters
OpenOffice_org-hyphen
OpenOffice_org-kde
<snip>
kde4-kdm
<snip>
kde4-kgpg
kde4-kio_audiocd
kde4-kio_iso
<snip
keytouch
kipi-plugins
koffice-illustration
konversation
kpowersave
<snip>
xorg-x11-fonts
xorg-x11-libX11-ccache
xstroke
xtermset
xvkbd
yast2-add-on
yast2-apparmor
yast2-backup
<snip>
ypbind
zip
I cut out about 9/10 of it, but you get the Idea
like I said, this program isn’t reliable all it does if find any package that doesn’t depend on another and thinks its a dependency, this way any single package will be counted as a dependency.
I think its better u leave removing dependencies to suse itself from time to time.
rpmorphan shows the packages that are not reffered by any other packege, i.e. no other package needs them to work properly. it doesn’t mean you don’t need these packages for your work. no program could tell you which packages you need and which need not. right-click on a package in rpmorphan gui shows info about the package.
if unsure about certain package just leave it.
I was hoping for the functionality of apt-get autoremove. That is possible.
I don’t know why this is such a problem, like I said orphaned packages r removed your hard disk space isn’t going waste, u shouldn’t be so worried about this. 
Why the need to remove unused/needed dependencies ?
These are all in the range of 50 to 250kb.
Even unwanted progs like OpenOffice at 270MB can just sit there even though you may use KOffice. We all have multi GB HDD’s, no ??
OK, I run a server on an old PIII with a 10GB HDD, in such a case you may want to remove whetever you do not need/use.
no program could tell you which packages you need and which need not.
I was replying to that ^^. As long as the packages get removed, I am fine.
the packages do get removed as far as I know, every once in a while at least I have nopticed this but if someone who knows more than me wants to give advice then go ahead.