Re: using yum/repoquery to provide dependency trees

[Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar redhat com>]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 12:46:15AM +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.

You may also want to try rpmreaper. It's an interactive tool designed
for browsing dependencies and removing packages.

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Miroslav Lichvar