At 22:38 22-12-02, Rich Smrcina wrote: >During the install of SLES7, if I remove a preselected package, for instance >libjpeg, I will get a 'Failed Dependencies' dialog which will give me the >chance to re-select it. This dialog is an indication to me that some other >package requires libjpeg. I need to find out what that other package is, so >that I can decide if I want to delete it or if the other package is important >enough to me where I can live with libjpeg anyway.
The horse appears to be dead alright now, but if you would use plain rpm -e libjpeg then RPM tells you *which* dependencies it breaks. AFAIK YaST has its own list of dependencies extracted from the packages and enhanced with extra suggestions (because many of the dependencies in SuSE packages seem not to be complete). We find that apt4rpm does a wonderful job (at least finding the extra packages that you need when you install something new - I use the -s option frequently to see whether it would de-install something). Rob
