I just did a cooker rsync and am using MandrakeUpdate to update my
installed packages.  One thing I find annoying is that when
MandrakeUpdate(urpmi) signals that additional packages are needed to
complete dependencies there is no way to find out what is requiring
a given package.

In the most recent batch of updates that I am doing with
MandrakeUpdate for instance, kernel-linus2.4 is a required dependency.
Of course I don't want that installed and I want to know what is
requiring it.  How can I find that out?  There does not seem to be the
equivillent of rpm's "--whatrequires" for urpmi.

It would be really nice if one of the tabs in the MandrakeUpdate
windows that shows which additional packages are going to be installed
to satisfy dependencies showed which package being installed required
the dependent package to be added to the installation list.

b.

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Brian J. Murrell

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