Re: packages listed vs. apt-rdepends --follow=Depends ...

[Tom Furie <tom@furie.org.uk>]

Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> writes:

> https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/wget
>
> shows 8 packages as "depends"
>
> dep: libc6 (>= 2.28)
> dep: libgnutls30 (>= 3.7.0)
> dep: libidn2-0 (>= 0.6)
> dep: libnettle8
> dep: libpcre2-8-0 (>= 10.22)
> dep: libpsl5 (>= 0.16.0)
> dep: libuuid1 (>= 2.16)
> dep: zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)

These are direct dependencies.

>  vs. 17 using apt-rdepends --follow=Depends:
>
> $ apt-rdepends --follow=Depends "wget" | grep --invert-match ^\
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Reading state information... Done
> wget
> libc6
> libcrypt1
> libgcc-s1
> gcc-10-base
> libgnutls30
> libgmp10
> libhogweed6
> libnettle8
> libidn2-0
> libunistring2
> libp11-kit0
> libffi7
> libtasn1-6
> libpcre2-8-0
> libpsl5
> libuuid1
> zlib1g

This is a recursive search, also showing dependencies of dependencies,
etc.

Cheers,
Tom