



It would be great if yumdb supported “group” type. So only way around this I can see is to not install groups, because installing a group tells it to install whatever is in the list. Similarly, for ModemManager, it’ll be part of default group. $ sudo yum groupinfo hardware-support |grep ipw2200 I guess that makes sense, if you install a group then you’re telling it you want all of the packages there (but you shouldn’t get any deps).įor example, most systems probably have group installed, which is where ipw220-firmware comes from: I think the reason for this is that yumdb is including default and mandatory packages from when you install a group. Some people have written in to say the command shows packages that they never explicitly installed, things like ModemManager and firware packages. Yumdb search reason dep |egrep "agg|boost-iostreams|boost-serialization|gtkglext-libs|pangox-compat" List packages which were installed as deps: To list all available packages in enabled repositories, do this: sudo dnf list -available wc -l 63490 Comparing these numbers can point out how few packages are installed compared to how. If you’re after a way to list all the packages you have explicitly installed (rather than packages that have been pulled in as a dependency) then you can do that with yumdb (thanks to Panu on #yum for the tip) which is powered by a new database added in 2009.
