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

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 2 Jan 2014, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> 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.

  ah, quite so:

$ yum whatprovides dailyjobs

i really should have thought of that. thanks.

rday

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