On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 20:58 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > A quick way to actually check for such dependencies is to switch to > > another desktop environment, say Xfce, remove all the KDE packages and > > install one of the KDE apps. > > That's not all that quick. There ought to be a tool for this. Given a package > name it should print the dependency tree for that package. It could have an > option to suppress packages in the base set. Couldn't Yum be taught to answer > that kind of queries? There is already: http://james.fedorapeople.org/yum/commands/pkg-deps-tree-view.py ...obviously any random custom behaviour (like ignoring packages in @base) is possible, someone just has to write it. -- James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list