showing dependency trees

[Seth Vidal]

On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Björn Persson wrote:

> 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.
>

define "unnecessarily"?

-sv