[BBLISA] List packages that are not dependencies

[Mark Lamourine]

for RPM in `rpm -qa --qf "%{NAME}\n" | sort -u` ; do
  if [ "`rpm -q --whatrequires $RPM`" == "no package requires $RPM" ] ;
then
    echo "$RPM"
  fi
done

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Alex Aminoff <alex at basespace.net> wrote:

>
> This is surprisingly more difficult than I expected.
>
> Is there a simple way to ask a package management system (rpm, yum, or
> apt) to list those packages which are not themselves dependencies for
> any other package?
>
> I could ask for the dependencies of each package and then write perl
> code to figure it out, but I don't think I should have to.
>
>  - Alex Aminoff
>    BaseSpace.net
>
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