is cronie-anacron a package requirement for cronie or not?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 10:25:33 -0500,
   "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>  predictably, cronie-anacron requires cronie, that part's easy.
>however, if i check to see what "requires" cronie-anacron on my fedora
>20 system, i see:
>
># rpm -q --whatrequires cronie-anacron
>no package requires cronie-anacron
>#
>
>  normally, i'd interpret that to mean that i can remove that package
>independently of anything else. but if i try, i get a list of 35
>packages that would be removed due to dependencies, including cronie
>itself.
>
>  why is that? what command do i run to see that obvious dependency?
>thanks.

The dependency may be on a file or a "provides" provided by 
cronie-anacron. If you look at the yum output, the first dependency 
added to the remove list is probably a good place to start. You can 
look at what that package requires.