[Yum] Yum/rpm dependency list

[Greg Knaddison]

On 4/25/05, Jason Kim <jkim at advance.net> wrote:
> For instance, say I have a redhat system with only the 'base', 'core', and
> 'admin-tools' groups installed (via kickstart and yum). Then someone comes
> along and installs the 'fortune' package (which isn't already installed, and
> which I don't want). I want to generate a list of all the rpms that *should*
> be installed, given my requirements, and compare that to the current list so
> I can remove the extraneous packages.
> 

I don't think that finding the dependencies of the original packages
is the best way of attacking this problem.

I think that you might have better luck looking at the install.log and
install.log.syslog and /var/log/yum.log

Greg