[CentOS] determining what depends on a rpm

[Jon LaBadie]

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 "--whatrequires" option.
"rpm -q --requires lightdm" gives me 41 lines of output.

You might also try "yum deplist lightdm".

Jon
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