This tutorial explains how to find which package requires a certain dependency in CentOS, RHEL, Fedora and scientific Linux. You might ask why we need to find the dependencies. There could be many reasons. If you are a RPM package maintainer you need to be aware of the required dependencies for a particular package. Also, we can omit a particular package while installing multitude of X packages. Say for example, the other day I was trying to install root, a collection of packages provided by EPEL. The entire root-system is unfortunately split into a multitude of 40 packages.
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