Remove all traces of yum package

I recently came across a need to remove every trace a package makes in CentOS 7.  Yum erase didn’t entirely do the trick, so I had to get a bit more creative. My solution was to combine the repoquery and xargs commands:

repoquery -l <package_name> | xargs rm -rf

Success! Every file in the yum package was removed entirely. Complete obliteration.

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