On 08/24/2009 07:44 PM, James Antill wrote: > 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. Is there a reason this tool is not part of yum-utils? Rahul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
