On 17/12/2018 17:24, Simon Matter wrote:
On 12/17/18 3:50 AM, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote:
or this one :-)
rpm -ev --test PACKAGENAME
will list all packages that require PACKAGENAME
True. I considered that, and then decided that I could never recommend
using "rpm -e" as a test, even with
> On 12/17/18 3:50 AM, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote:
>>
>> or this one :-)
>> rpm -ev --test PACKAGENAME
>> will list all packages that require PACKAGENAME
>
>
> True. I considered that, and then decided that I could never recommend
> using "rpm -e" as a test, even with the --test flag, due to
On 12/17/18 3:50 AM, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote:
or this one :-)
rpm -ev --test PACKAGENAME
will list all packages that require PACKAGENAME
True. I considered that, and then decided that I could never recommend
using "rpm -e" as a test, even with the --test flag, due to the risk of
> Am 16.12.2018 um 00:07 schrieb Gordon Messmer :
>
> 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
On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 03:05:45PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> yum remove lightdm
>
> That command tells me that it's also going to remove lightdm-gobject and
> lightdm-gtk.
>
> rpm -q --whatrequires lightdm
> no package requires lightdm
>
Perhaps you want the "--requires" instead of
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
On 15/12/2018 21:05, Frank Cox wrote:
yum remove lightdm
That command tells me that it's also going to remove lightdm-gobject and
lightdm-gtk.
rpm -q --whatrequires lightdm
no package requires lightdm
So obviously we can't take the word of the --whatrequires option from the rpm
command
yum remove lightdm
That command tells me that it's also going to remove lightdm-gobject and
lightdm-gtk.
rpm -q --whatrequires lightdm
no package requires lightdm
So obviously we can't take the word of the --whatrequires option from the rpm
command since yum remove tells me that there are
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