2009/8/23 Björn Persson <bjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Debayan Banerjee wrote: >> 2009/8/24 Björn Persson <bjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> > 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? >> >> edos-rpmcheck >> >> http://www.edos-project.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/debcheck_home > > Judging from the description on that page, that's not what I want. It says the > program checks whether a package is installable. Yum can do that. I want to > check whether a package drags in other packages unnecessarily. > > Björn Persson > > Maybe speak to Richard Jones: http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/size-of-rpm-dependencies-2/ -- Mat Booth A: Because it destroys the order of the conversation. Q: Why shouldn't you do it? A: Posting your reply above the original message. Q: What is top-posting? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
