On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 12:12, Smith, Eric V. wrote: > Is it possible to print a package dependency tree using yum? For > example, when I install emacs (say), it tells me a bunch of other rpms > it needs to install. One of them is perl. I'd like to know if this is > because emacs itself needs perl, or something emacs requires needs perl. not currently. This is something that Michael and I were just hashing out in my office and something that has been recently in more discussion. At the moment I need to finish some new items and get a new 1.xx release and a new 2.xx release of yum out so I can work on interesting things like this. if you do an rpm -qp --requires emacs.rpm.here you'll see perl is specifically required by the emacs rpm, though. -sv
