Thanks Mike,On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 15:48 -0400, Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 20:40 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > > On 4/8/06, Jeffrey D. Yuille <jeffy5@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Does anyone know the command for checking dependencies of a program before > > > deleting it? I didn't realize that after deleting a program (in this case, > > > wpa_supplicant), other critical programs would be deleted as well. > > > Fortunately, I was able to replace those dependencies but would prefer to > > > avoid this problem in the future. > > > > Yum offers you the option of not removing anything after having listed > > all dependencies. > > > > p > > > > How do I activate this option? > What Paul means, is that if you run "yum install package", yum will automatically list what package(s) need to be installed to get this package installed (which automatically includes it's dependencies). It will "ask" you to hit "y or n" to either install or not install the packages. This is the default behaviour of yum. As root, try it out as an example and you will see for yourself. You can remove stuff through yum as well "yum remove pacakge". man yum for more details. -- Mike Chambers Madisonville, KY "It's only funny until someone gets hurt, then it's hilarious!"
I guess I am always in the habit of using the "yes" option whenever I install packages in YUM. I'll have to be more careful whenever I decide to delete something.
