yum erase the best way to do reverse dependency checking?

suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com
Wed Feb 23 10:16:06 UTC 2011


On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Andras Simon <szajmi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not really, because this will only show packages that directly depend
> on the first package, not those that depend on these dependent
> packages etc.
>

In any case if your package is not using a package directly, then it
should not be a dependency. I don't quite follow why there needs to be
a recursive dependency checking if its not being used explicitly.

> Andras



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