removing "not needed" rpm

[piti]

hi
i have mdk installed and working fine
just installed some libs and progs from sources, e.g. bzip2, zlib
now i want to remove the original rpms, which were installed during the os install, but there are so many dependencies
am i forced to have both rpm of those progs and the sources installed? if not how to remove the rpms and have the other progs that depend on these not to stop working properly?
thanx

 

[zeland]

Dependencies wouldn't be called so if you could remove them and not break anything. If you intend to just get the RPMs of all the software you install then you do not need any source. Of course there are time that you want to compile something from source because the stock RPM you downloaded doesn't work, but thoses are few and rare.

As a rule of thumb, if you're not hard-up on disk space, just leave them there. You'll never know when you'll need it as linux is a "self service" platform. ;p