Hi Christofer,

Le vendredi 09 novembre 2007, Christofer Olofsson a écrit :
> Hi everyone, hope i'm on the correct list.
> 
> Let me start by thanking you for opensuse, not to come off to bad asking
> these questions ;)
> 
> 
> Why does a package depend on another and where/how can I find out how?

Usually because a binary in package A needs a library from package B, or
a script or binary from package A needs a binary or script from package B.

Try rpm -q --provides <package> and rpm -q --requires <package>.

-- 
Jean Delvare
Suse L3
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