yum erase the best way to do reverse dependency checking?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 08:15 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote:
> 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.

echo N|yum erase foo

Not elegant but it works.

poc