showing dependency trees
James Antill
james at fedoraproject.org
Mon Aug 24 14:14:17 UTC 2009
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 20:58 +0200, Björn Persson wrote:
> 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?
There is already:
http://james.fedorapeople.org/yum/commands/pkg-deps-tree-view.py
...obviously any random custom behaviour (like ignoring packages in
@base) is possible, someone just has to write it.
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James Antill <james at fedoraproject.org>
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