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Date: 2009jun10
OS: Linux
Distro: RedHat/Fedora/CentOS
Keywords: leafs, orphans

Q.  How can I find leaf and orphan packages?

A.  Install the yum-utils package if you don't already have it:

dnf install yum-utils

Then you can run:

package-cleanup --leaves
	List leaf nodes in the local RPM database.  Leaf nodes are RPMs
	that are not relied upon by any other RPM.

package-cleanup --orphan
	List installed packages which are not available from currently
	configured repositories.

Its not automatically safe to erase the packages you find.