[CentOS] determining what depends on a rpm
Simon Matter
simon.matter at invoca.chMon Dec 17 17:24:31 UTC 2018
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> 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 > operator error. Though if you put it in an alias, I suppose that the > risk is minimal and the answer is simpler. :) It's not really dangerous even without --test, because if it has dependencies the remove is not done, you just get an error. Regards, Simon
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