"Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
something like "urpmf --requires kernel" will do it, the problem is that this is incomplete as some package may provides kernel, to find them, first try with "urpmf --provides kernel" (as kernel-linus2.4 is problably required because a kernel is required, you may have lost some media ?). > 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. Guillaume ? :-) Fran�ois.
