showing dependency trees

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> On 08/24/2009 07:44 PM, James Antill wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Is there a reason this tool is not part of yum-utils?
>


cleanup + merging it with other tools and other delays.



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