On 2015-04-27, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: --SNIP-- > And I guess the other piece of this would be finding individual > packages that are not encompassed by the groups - or pulled in by > dependencies. Is there some database-like approach to take the full > list of packages, then reduce it to the minimal list of groups and > top-level packages to pull the rest in? It probably will work to > hand the raw list to yum but I'd like to make an understandable list > in a script even if the packages had been added piecemeal in the first > place as someone noticed the need for them. The command 'package-cleanup --leaves --all' (from yum-utils) will help you. Leaf packages are those which are not relied upon by other packages. -- Liam