showing dependency trees

Björn Persson bjorn at xn--rombobjrn-67a.se
Sun Aug 23 19:29:24 UTC 2009


Debayan Banerjee wrote:
> 2009/8/24 Björn Persson <bjorn at xn--rombobjrn-67a.se>
> > 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?
>
> edos-rpmcheck
>
> http://www.edos-project.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/debcheck_home

Judging from the description on that page, that's not what I want. It says the 
program checks whether a package is installable. Yum can do that. I want to 
check whether a package drags in other packages unnecessarily.

Björn Persson

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