> Am 16.12.2018 um 00:07 schrieb Gordon Messmer <gordon.mess...@gmail.com>: > > On 12/15/18 1:05 PM, Frank Cox wrote: >> Ultimately it would be very useful to have some kind of a tool that would >> generate a report from the rpms installed on a system and tell you exactly >> what depends on what else. Among other things you could use that report to >> remove stuff that's not needed in any installation. > > > While not a simple answer, this bash function will provide what you're > looking for: > > whatrequires () { (rpm -q --qf '%{NAME}\n' "$1" ; rpm -q --provides "$1" ) | > tr \\n \\0 | xargs -0 rpm -q --whatrequires ; } >
or this one :-) rpm -ev --test PACKAGENAME will list all packages that require PACKAGENAME -- LF _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos