How about using yum history to find when and why the package was installed? yum history summary dnsmasq yum history package-list dnsmasq Jamie On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 at 20:56, Kenneth Porter <shiva at sewingwitch.com> wrote: > --On Wednesday, January 27, 2021 3:31 PM -0500 Stephen John Smoogen > <smooge at gmail.com> wrote: > > > or one can look for the comps file in /var/cache/yum > > > > network-tools has dnsmasq listed as a package > > > > repoquery says the following on my rhel box > > NetworkManager-1:1.4.0-20.el7_3.x86_64 > > libvirt-daemon-driver-network-0:4.5.0-36.el7_9.3.x86_64 > > Aha! It's actually in network-server ("Network Infrastructure Server") > group. network-tools is the next one in the comps.xml file. The group name > sounds like something I might have wanted for my application, but the > contents are really for a lightweight server like one finds in a consumer > router. > > But, except for dhcp and radvd, none of the other packages in that group > are installed, so I still don't see how I got dnsmasq on my system. Here's > the network-server package list: > > <packagereq type="optional">dhcp</packagereq> > <packagereq type="optional">dnsmasq</packagereq> > <packagereq type="optional">freeradius</packagereq> > <packagereq type="optional">quagga</packagereq> > <packagereq type="optional">radvd</packagereq> > <packagereq type="optional">rsyslog-gnutls</packagereq> > <packagereq type="optional">rsyslog-gssapi</packagereq> > <packagereq type="optional">rsyslog-kafka</packagereq> > <packagereq type="optional">rsyslog-mysql</packagereq> > <packagereq type="optional">rsyslog-pgsql</packagereq> > <packagereq type="optional">rsyslog-relp</packagereq> > <packagereq type="optional">syslinux</packagereq> > <packagereq type="optional">syslinux-tftpboot</packagereq> > <packagereq type="optional">tang</packagereq> > <packagereq type="optional">tftp-server</packagereq> > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >