Checking Dependencies

[Jeffrey D. Yuille]

On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 15:05 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 15:48 -0400, Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 20:40 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: 
> > > On 4/8/06, Jeffrey D. Yuille <jeffy5 at optonline.net> wrote:
> > > >  Does anyone know the command for checking dependencies of a program before
> > > > deleting it?  I didn't realize that after deleting a program (in this case,
> > > > wpa_supplicant), other critical programs would be deleted as well.
> > > > Fortunately, I was able to replace those dependencies but would prefer to
> > > > avoid this problem in the future.
> > > 
> > > Yum offers you the option of not removing anything after having listed
> > > all dependencies.
> > > 
> > > p
> > > 
> > 
> >      How do I activate this option?  
> > 
> 
> What Paul means, is that if you run "yum install package", yum will
> automatically list what package(s) need to be installed to get this
> package installed (which automatically includes it's dependencies).  It
> will "ask" you to hit "y or n" to either install or not install the
> packages.  This is the default behaviour of yum. As root, try it out as
> an example and you will see for yourself.  You can remove stuff through
> yum as well "yum remove pacakge".  man yum for more details.
> 
> -- 
> Mike Chambers
> Madisonville, KY
> 
> "It's only funny until someone gets hurt, then it's hilarious!"
> 

Thanks Mike, 

     I guess I am always in the habit of using the "yes" option whenever
I install packages in YUM.  I'll have to be more careful whenever I
decide to delete something.  
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