I am in the process now of wanting to remove a good percentage of the packages on my Fedora box in an attempt to slim it down a little more. And of course I am running into that good ol dependency problem. I went to Add/Remove Applications and unchecked a lot of what I was getting rid of then it tells me I need this and this installed...and it was a big hairy list. I know I can remove packages through yum but is there a quick way of doing it through yum? Like can I select all the Development packages and stuff. Know what I mean. I would prefer not to have to reformat.

Have you tried yum groupremove? I would start off with yum grouplist and select the groups that you know you don't need. For instance, if you have gnome or X devel files installed start with those, and slim down as needed.

Use apt with synaptic as the gui frontend. I find it very useful to remove multiple packages this way.

For some reason I can't do groupremove....I'm guess the actual groups are named slightly different or something. It usually tells me there are no packages to remove when I do it. Right now, I'm kinda going through the list graphically and removing it through yum that way.

I'm guessing I would have to download apt/synaptic....I have heard about it, but guess it doesn't come with Fedora or perhaps I didn't install it.

And now after removing packages and dependencies, one of the things it happened to remove was yum. For some reason, I am starting to feel I should just do a reformat.

No apt/synaptic don't come as default but you can get them from Fedora extras repository at fedoraproject.org.