yum erase the best way to do reverse dependency checking?

[Richard Shaw]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Hmmm.... I could wrap that in my own shell script to make it more
memorable. Something like "depcheck" or the like.

Thanks,
Richard