xfree86 lite

[Kurt Wall]

Also sprach m.w.chang:
>
> it's under a GUI. :)

Ooh. Big bonus. NOT.

> and most vendors don't list really tell you exactly which packages are
> related to xfree86 and kde. I merely guessed my way out by rpm -e kde*
> and xfree*. there may still be related packages.

$ rpm -q --requires <package>

shows you the packages on which <package> depends. You can issue a similar
query for XFree86 and KDE packages.

$ rpm -q --provides <package>

shows you the capabilities that <package> provides. Once you have that list
of capabilities, issue the command

$ rpm -q --whatrequires <capability>

to identify the packages that provide <capability>. Using these three commands
in various combinations should make clear the dependency chain for XFree86 and
KDE.

And before someone complains that their favorite package manager makes all 
of this simpler, I don't care. Yes, it *is* a pain to have to do it this way,
but for RPM-based distributions, the commands you need to construct a dependency
graph need to be rpm commands, not <insert-name-of-package-manager here> commands.

Kurt
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