From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040422 Galeon/1.3.14 Description of problem: If one tries to do rpm -q --whatrequires to a package that isn't installed, or if you have a typo or a bogus package name, it will return "no package requires <packagename>". For example if I want to check what packages require compat-slang, but I don't have it installed I do: rpm -q --whatrequires compat-slang rpm will return: no package requires compat-slang This gives me the impression that I have the package installed, but no package needs it, which again seems all wrong. It should return "package compat-slang is not installed" instead or in addition to the current output. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Additional info:
I'm not sure this is really a bug. If you have unresolved dependancies you can legitimately have requirements for packages that are not installed. You can also have requirements for file paths, libraries etc