On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 6:30 AM, James Antill <jantill@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 00:46 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > >> Anyway I'm wondering if there's a way to some dep tree style bits with >> packages that are installed to see what causes the dependencies of >> what is actually installed. EG if I do a 'yum remove perl' it >> basically wants to uninstall gnome and a lot more but it would be nice >> to be able to see exactly what installed packages depend on perl or >> perl-Pop-Simple for example. > > There are a couple of things I think you might find useful (off the top > of my head): > > repoquery --alldeps --whatrequires <dep> > package-cleanup --leaves > pkg-deps-tree-view.py --limit-installed <pkg> (or *, for everything) > > ...the later¹ is probably closest to what you want, I think, as it will > spit out deps. into a tree like format and then you can browse it. Thanks James that looks like its exactly what I want. Cheers, Peter > ¹ http://fedorapeople.org/~james/yum/commands/pkg-deps-tree-view.py > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
