yum erase the best way to do reverse dependency checking?

[Richard Shaw]

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Robert Nichols
<rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net> wrote:
> On 02/20/2011 12:04 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
>> I was googling for a way to figure out a dependency chain for a
>> package I'm trying to flush out a spec file for and build. There
>> doesn't seem to be a non-destructive equivalent to "yum erase
>> <package>" to see if I need to explicitly include a package/program.
>>
>> Anyone have a solution they like?
>
> Unless you use "-y" on the command line or have "assumeyes" in your
> yum.conf file, yum is going to prompt for confirmation before actually
> removing anything.

Obviously. I was just trying to find a method that's failsafe. One
could argue that it's very easy to accidentally add -y or press y at
the prompt because that's what you're used to doing.

Richard