Fw: linux newbie

[Ben Scott]

On 1/15/07, Michael ODonnell <michael.odonnell at comcast.net> wrote:
> Debian has apt-rdepends, which can recursively show the
> dependencies for a given package.

  FYI, "rpm -q --requires packagename" does a similar thing for
RPM-based systems.

  RPM generally considers a package to implicitly depends on the
dependencies of its dependencies, so you see everything you need.  It
doesn't break out dependencies by what provides them, like
"apt-rdepends" apparently does, though.  Neat feature, that.

-- Ben