Re: Is there a tool for recursively listing dependencies?

[Roland Bauerschmidt <roland@hbg-bremen.de>]

Andrew Pollock wrote:
> Before I pop off and write a Perl script or something to recursively find
> dependencies of a package and it's dependencies dependencies (and so on), is
> there already something that does this?
> 
> To cut to the chase, I want to determine all the packages that the Desktop
> task installs, to then see if a bug has been filed...

I wrote something like that a few years ago. It could also include
Suggests: and Recommends: recursively. For most "high-level packages,"
it would produce quite long lists. I used libapt-pkg-perl for it. Since
I couldn't find in my home directory anymore, I googled for it and came
up with the following link:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu/2001/04/msg00036.html

However, I haven't used it since, and it's also probable that the above
link doesn't include the latest version I wrote. Maybe it helps you to
get started though.

Roland