On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 6:30 AM, James Antill <jantill(a)redhat.com> 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