showing dependency trees

[Björn Persson]

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?

Björn Persson

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