Checking Dependencies

[Paul Howarth]

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?

Easy - don't use the "-y" option to yum.

Paul.