Checking Dependencies

[Dan]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 04:21 -0400, Dan wrote:
>   
>> Jeffrey D. Yuille 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.  
>>>       
>> rpm -q --requires packagename
>>     
>
> That tells you what a package depends on, not what packages depend on
> it.
>
> Paul.
>
>   
True. I meant rpm -q --whatrequires packagename . Though I've had odd 
experiences where this command hasn't returned everything it should have.
-Dan